A cream-of-the-crop selection of Murakami's brilliance and piercing wit. This collection shows sides of Ryu Murakami that even avid fans may not be expecting.

... Tokyo they live to face is literally toxic. His most recent work in English translation is the short- story collection Tokyo Decadence: 15 Stories (2016). Literature in Japan is not, entirely, a boys' club. Banana Yoshimoto (b 1964) ...

... ( Tokyo : Shōgakukan , 1998 ) , 41 . 13. Kuroko , Murakami Ryū , 63. Kuroko talks about the " desire of destruction ... Decadence : 15 Stories , trans . Ralph McCarthy , ( Kumamoto : Kurodahan Press , 2016 ) , ch . 7 , Kindle ed . 20 ...

... Tokyo Decadence review by Sawako Omori When the news reached Japan that Tokyo Decadence was a success in America and Italy , I was incredulous . Surely , there was some mistake . Films by Kurosawa , Oshima , or Itami are great cinema ...

... Tokyo decadence ” porta invece ad una Tokyo del XXIII secolo , violenta , depravata , erotica e supervirtuale . Ha scaricato tutti i suoi programmi nelle videocassette , toccarle equivale a scegliere un'icona . C'è voluto tempo e ...

... Tokyo Decadence Northern Arts TOKYO DECADENCE ( Northern Arts ) Producers , Yoshitaka Suzuki , Tadanobu Hirao , Yosuke Nagata ; Executive Producer , Eiten Taga ; Director / Screenplay , Ryu Murakami ; Photography , Tadashi Aoki ; Music ...

... Tokyo Decadence Topaz ( 1991 ) , Ridley Scott's Blade Runner ( 1982 ) , Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist ( 1969 ) , Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible ( 1942–6 ) , Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood ( 1957 ) and Luis Buñuel's ...

... Tokyo Decadence, have achieved a fair amount of positive critical attention. In addition to Almost Transparent Blue (1976; 1977), his novels include: Coin Locker Babies (1980; English translation 1995), 69 Sixty-nine (1987; English ...

... Tokyo Association of Families Against Karo- shi , 143 Tokyo Decadence ( movie ) , 20 Tokyo Generating Company , 181 Tokyo Metropolitan Council ( TMC ) , 181 Tokyo Story ( movie ) , 29 Tora - san ( television character ) , 28 Toshiba ...