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Ryū Murakami

Ryū Murakami

Writing

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ryū Murakami (born 19 February 1952 in Sasebo, Nagasaki) is a Japanese novelist and filmmaker. He is colloquially referred to as the "Maradona of Japanese literature". Description above from the Wikipedia article Ryû Murakami, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Tokyo Decadence
6.0

A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is apparently trying to find some sort of appeasement for the fact that her lover has married.

Tokyo Decadence

1992
Audition
7.1

Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife from a colleague. Taking advantage of their position as a film company, they stage an audition. Interviewing a series of women, Shigeharu is enchanted by the quiet Asami. But soon things take a twisted turn as Asami isn’t what she seems to be.

Audition

2000
Piercing
5.7

After kissing his wife and baby goodbye for a seemingly normal business trip, Reed checks himself into a hotel room to accomplish something he’s always dreamed of: the perfect murder. As his sinister plans unfold, he soon realizes he might be in over his head with a mysteriously unhinged call girl named Jackie.

Piercing

2019
Love & Pop
7.7

Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or "compensated dating", where older men pay young girls for dates. Hiromi plunges deeper into this world to raise money for an expensive ring.

Love & Pop

1998
Hello Life from 55
8.0

A fragment of the lives of five 55-year-old men and women.

Hello Life from 55

2014
69
6.5

Hoping to catch a girl's attention, high school students Ken and Adama cook up an ambitious plan. They plan a festival that combines film, theater, and rock music, and develop their project into a school road block. This plan however catches the attention of television stations and newspapers, and soon even the cops became involved in this teenage adventure.

69

2004
Almost Transparent Blue
6.5

In the mid-1970s, a small group of friends are living in a Japanese town near an American air force base, their lives revolve around sex, drugs and rock 'n roll. The near-plotless story weaves a vividly raw, image-intensive journey through the daily monotony of drug-induced hallucinations, vicious acts of violence, overdoses, suicide, and group sex.

Almost Transparent Blue

1979
Karaoke Terror
5.9

One of a gang of karaoke loving middle aged women is murdered by a young man. Her friends track him down and kill him. His friends track them down and kill the killer and it escalates!

Karaoke Terror

2003
Run Ichiro Run
8.5

Various individuals named Ichiro undergo life-changing events while being inspired by the baseball player Ichiro. A heartwarming movie about the people who root for the baseball player Ichiro, and their struggles to make their own dreams come true.

Run Ichiro Run

2001
It's All Right, My Friend
6.3

An alien with super powers fallen from the sky is befriended by some people who help him stop an evil group out to get him.

It's All Right, My Friend

1983
Raffles Hotel
5.3

Actress Moeko comes to Singapore to look for Kariya, the man she loves. She checks in at Raffles Hotel and finds out that he lives in a big house with his wife and children. In the darkness, Moeko suddenly stands in front of Kariya with a camera in her hands. The shutter's sound resounds through the room. When it fades away, Moeko has vanished...

Raffles Hotel

1989
The Cambrian Palace
N/A

Economic talk-show / documentary. Each episode focuses on a single entrepreneur and features a reportage explaining their work, as well as studio discussion with the guest.

The Cambrian Palace

2006
Tokyo Noise
8.3

Tokyo. A metropolis filled with sound, movement and culture. Through interviews with some of Tokyo's inhabitants, such as world-renowned photographer Nobuyoshi Araki, game designer Shono, musician Mayuko Hino and others.

Tokyo Noise

2002
No image
N/A

Plot TBA. Based on the 1997 horror novel by Ryū Murakami.

Audition

55 Sai Kara No Hello Life
N/A

A fragment of the lives of five 55-year-old men and women.

55 Sai Kara No Hello Life

2014
Dance with Me
10.0

As a child, Kyoko learned latin dance from Jose, a Cuban-American serviceman stationed in Japan. Years later, Kyoko travels to New York to see Jose again. After much searching, she finds Jose, only to discover that he is dying of AIDS and no longer remembers much of his past, including the time he and Kyoko spent together.

Dance with Me

1996