This is the second part in a short series of reviews of Murakami adaptations, and contains spoilers for both the short story and film adaptation of “Burning”. I would recommend either reading or watching before reading this. Thank you. Lee Chang-dong, a South Korean auteur and one of the leading members of the Korean New Wave, …
This is the first part in a short series of reviews of Murakami adaptations, and contains slight spoilers for both the short story and film adaptation of "Tony Takitani". I would recommend either reading or watching before reading this. Thank you. Published in The New Yorker in April 2002, “Tony Takitani” isn’t one of Japanese …
This post is about the 1984 film Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, and I would recommend watching that before this. This post contains full spoilers for that film, as well as for the film First Reformed. The contents of this post were originally written as my university dissertation, and have been minimally edited here …
I recently worked my way through Hideo Yokoyama's crime thriller Six Four, which was just published in the UK after being a huge hit in Japan, and I just wanted to give some quick thoughts on it. For starters, it's worth qualifying what kind of mystery novel this is; it isn't a shinhonkaku mystery novel, although …
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