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Ryū Murakami

Ryū Murakami is recorded as writer, screenwriter, novelist, film director and essayist.

Also recorded as Ryūnosuke Murakami · Ryu Murakami · Ryuu Murakami

Catalogued output

Works

Their recorded dates run from 1958 to 2011. The first 12 are listed here.

55-Sai kara no Hello Life.

  • Almost Transparent Blue

  • In the Miso Soup

  • Coin Locker Babies

  • Topaz

  • Kyoko

  • Audition

  • Piercing

  • From the Fatherland With Love

  • Old Terrorist. 音乐的海岸

Dated record

Life and career

The full dated record · 1 entries
  1. 1952

    Ryū Murakami born at Sasebo.

Where the work is held

Collections

Ryū Murakami received Gunzou Prize for New Writers, Akutagawa Prize, Noma Literary New Face Prize, Hirabayashi Taiko Prize, Yomiuri Prize and Tanizaki Prize.

Primary material

Documents and archives

Literature

Bibliography

Les bébés de la consigne automatique de Murakami Ryū: corps, volonté, violence, Le corps dans les littératures modernes d’Asie orientale: discours, représentation, intermédialité, 2022. (R)evolution in the Land of the Lonely: Murakami Ryū and the Project to Overcome Modernity, Japanese Studies, 2008.

  • Murakami Ryū og Japans Tabte Årti, Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap, 2017

Citations

References

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The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 14 August 2026.

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