Revealing the flaws of Japanese society, the 1995 sarin gas attack in the Tokyo subway prompted Murakami to return to his homeland, whose conformism he rejected, to examine it closely. This led to the ...

For some, it's the last real taste of innocence, and the first real taste of life.

“After the Quake,” a film adaptation of a Murakami Haruki story collection, has been picked up by Japan’s Bitters End for international rights sales. Directed by Inoue Tsuyoshi (“Amachan”) and ...