Ryu Murakami Biography

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is a Japanese novelist and filmmaker.  Born RyÅ«nosuke Murakami (æ??ä¸? é¾?ä¹?å?© Murakami RyÅ«nosuke), he is not related to Haruki Murakami or Takashi Murakami.

Works

Murakami's first work, the short novel Almost Transparent Blue, deals with promiscuity and drug use among disaffected Japanese youth. Critically acclaimed as a new style of literature, it won the newcomer's literature prize in 1976, although some observers decried it as decadent. Later the same year, Blue won the Akutagawa Prize, going on to become a best seller. In 1980, Murakami published the much longer novel Coin Locker Babies, again to critical acclaim.

Takashi Miike's feature film Audition (1999) was based on one of his novels. Murakami reportedly liked it so much he gave Miike his blessing to adapt Coin Locker Babies, however, Miike could not raise funding for the project. An adaptation directed by Michele Civetta is currently in production [1].

Bibliography

Filmography

(Directed By)

• Almost Transparent Blue (1979)
  
• All Right, My Friend (1983)
  
• Raffles Hotel (1989)
  
• Topaz (a.k.a. Tokyo Decadence) (1992)
  
• Kyoko (a.k.a. Because of You) (2000)
  

(Written By)

• Almost Transparent Blue (1979)
  
• All Right, My Friend (1983)
  
• Raffles Hotel (1989)
  
• Topaz (a.k.a. Tokyo Decadence) (1992)
  
• Topaz II (a.k.a. Love & Pop) (1996)
  
• Audition (1999)
  
• Kyoko (aka Because of You) (2000)
  
• Hashire! Ishiro (2001)
  
• 69 (2004)
  
• Coin Locker Babies (2008)
  

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