Re:Disappearing Act: The working life of Haruki Murakami
by sparkie on Thursday May 04, 2023 @01:34AM
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There's quite a few directors who credit Murakami as an influence on their works.
Rian Johnson's film Looper was influenced by HBW+EOW.
Wong Kar-wai says he took inspiration from Murakami in Chunking Express.
David Mitchell is clearly influenced by his works (worth reading if you're a Murakami fan). His novel Cloud Atlas got a film adaptation with Tom Hanks and some other big names.
In anime, Satoshi Kon and Makoto Shinkai have said Murakami was a big influence on them. There's also Haibane Renmei which was influenced by HBW+EOW (IMO not worth watching). Probably plenty more anime with similar styles because it's a more suitable medium for the kind of surrealism in Murakami's novels. GITS, Serial Experiments Lain and .hack//Roots might be worth a watch (although the theme in latter has since been done 100x over).
Rian Johnson's film Looper was influenced by HBW+EOW.
Wong Kar-wai says he took inspiration from Murakami in Chunking Express.
David Mitchell is clearly influenced by his works (worth reading if you're a Murakami fan). His novel Cloud Atlas got a film adaptation with Tom Hanks and some other big names.
In anime, Satoshi Kon and Makoto Shinkai have said Murakami was a big influence on them. There's also Haibane Renmei which was influenced by HBW+EOW (IMO not worth watching). Probably plenty more anime with similar styles because it's a more suitable medium for the kind of surrealism in Murakami's novels. GITS, Serial Experiments Lain and .hack//Roots might be worth a watch (although the theme in latter has since been done 100x over).