Ryū Murakami (村上 龍, Murakami Ryū, born February 19, 1952 in Sasebo, Nagasaki) is a Japanese novelist, short story writer, essayist and filmmaker. His novels...

Blue") is a 1976 novel, written by Japanese author Ryū Murakami, that features a portrait of narrator Ryū and his friends trapped in a cycle of sex, drugs...

much contemporary Japanese literature, Murakami enjoys the works of Ryū Murakami and Banana Yoshimoto. Murakami enjoys baseball and describes himself as...

directed and co-written by Hideaki Anno, based on the novel Topaz II by Ryū Murakami. It was Anno's first live action feature-length film. The film was shot...

and directed by Nicolas Pesce, based on the novel of the same name by Ryū Murakami. It stars Christopher Abbott, Mia Wasikowska, and Laia Costa, and features...

Audition (オーディション) is a Japanese novel by Ryu Murakami published in 1997 and published in English in 2009. It was the basis for the 1999 film Audition...

In the Miso Soup (イン ザ・ミソスープ, In za Misosūpu) is a novel by Ryu Murakami. It was published over several months in Japanese throughout 1997 as a serialized...

directed by Takashi Miike and written by Daisuke Tengan. An adaptation of Ryu Murakami's 1997 novel, it stars Ryo Ishibashi and Eihi Shiina. The film follows...

Topāzu) is a 1992 Japanese pink film. This erotic film was directed by Ryū Murakami (村上 龍) with music by Ryuichi Sakamoto (坂本 龍一 ). The film was shot and...

Piercing is a novel by Ryu Murakami. Originally published in Japanese in 1994, it was translated and published in English by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2008...

Trigger Happy Havoc Kyoko, a novel by Ryū Murakami Kyoko or, in English, Because of You, a film inspired by Ryū Murakami's book[citation needed] Kyoko, a 2000...

superhero called Gonzy Traumerai. The film, written and directed by Ryu Murakami, is based on his own novel of the same name and published the same year;...

Daisuke Murakami (figure skater) Daisuke Murakami (snowboarder) Genzo Murakami (村上元三) (1910–2006), novelist Glen Murakami, animator Hiroaki Murakami, actor...

Six/Nine, a 1995 album by Buck-Tick 69, a novel by Ryu Murakami 69, a 2004 film based on the Murakami novel Lake 69, a small lake in the region of Áncash...

Locker Babies (コインロッカー・ベイビーズ, Koinrokkā Beibīzu), 1980, is a novel by Ryū Murakami about coin-operated-locker babies, translated into English by Stephen...

Fok Chingmy Yau, Simon Yam Hong Kong Action Thriller Tokyo Decadence Ryū Murakami Miho Nikaidō, Sayoko Amano Japan Drama 1993 Dangerous Game Abel Ferrara...

series also incorporates tributes to Childhood's End, the novels of Ryū Murakami, The Andromeda Strain, The Divine Invasion, the poem Pippa Passes, The...

ideas entered the cultural sphere, inspiring writers like Haruki Murakami and Ryū Murakami. The students' political demands made education reform a priority...

the Back (Keritai Senaka (蹴りたい背中)). The previous youngest winner was Ryū Murakami for Almost Transparent Blue (Kagirinaku Tōmei ni Chikai Burū (限りなく透明に近いブルー))...

From the Fatherland, with Love (半島を出よ, Hantō o Deyo) is a novel by Ryū Murakami, first published in Japanese in 2005 and translated into English in 2013...

69 (シクスティナイン, Shikusutinain) is a roman à clef novel by Ryu Murakami. It was published first in 1987. It takes place in 1969, and tells the story of some...

Mishima, and Ryōtarō Shiba. Popular contemporary authors such as Ryū Murakami, Haruki Murakami, and Banana Yoshimoto have been translated into many languages...

Kyoko is a 1995 novel by Ryu Murakami. The book tells the story of a young woman who comes to New York City to find the Cuban-American GI who taught her...

Other Japanese commentators such as academic Shinji Miyadai and novelist Ryū Murakami, have also offered analysis of the hikikomori phenomenon, and find distinct...

Kusama starred in the film Tokyo Decadence, written and directed by Ryū Murakami, and in 1993, she collaborated with British musician Peter Gabriel on...

Steamroller From the Fatherland, with Love, a 2005 alternate history novel by Ryū Murakami McVan's To Russia With Love Scottish Terrier show dog, Best in Show at...

Shōsetsu Subaru Literary Prize and the Akutagawa Prize (judged by novelist Ryū Murakami), and became a Japanese bestseller, going on to sell more than one million...

Miyazaki Kenji Mizoguchi Yoshimitsu Morita Katsuyuki Motohiro Kan Mukai Ryū Murakami Minoru Murata Kenji Nagasaki Shunichi Nagasaki Masahiko Nagasawa Sadao...

houses most of the hotel's restaurants. Raffles is the setting for Ryū Murakami's novel Raffles Hotel. The novel's film adaptation was shot on location...

Tōon-ryū (東恩流, Tō'on-ryū) is a style of Okinawan Karate founded by Kyoda Juhatsu. Juhatsu Kyoda (許田 重発, Kyoda Jūhatsu, December 5, 1887–August 31, 1968)...