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Ryū Murakami
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Japanese writer and filmmaker
OverviewAI-generated
Ryū Murakami is a Japanese writer, screenwriter, novelist, and film director born on February 19, 1952, in Sasebo City, Nagasaki, Japan. He is a male citizen of Japan who speaks Japanese as his native language. Murakami received his education at Musashino Art University. His birth name was 村上 龍之助, and he is also known by the name 村上 龍.
His literary career has been recognized with several awards, including the Akutagawa Prize, Yomiuri Prize, Tanizaki Prize, and Noma Literary Prize. Among his notable works are *Luxury lovers*, *For a Beautiful Country*, *Tenshi no tamago*, *Kagirinaku tomei ni chikai buru*, and *69*. He has an official website and is associated with the writing department in film credits.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1952-02-19
- Works
- 174
Top works
- Luxury lovers ISBN
- For a Beautiful Country
- Tenshi no tamago
- Kagirinaku tomei ni chikai buru
- 69
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Writing · Sasebo City, Nagasaki, Japan
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
- The Cambrian Palace2006
- Tokyo Noise — Writer2002
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 8
- Total plays
- 8
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Geant4—a simulation toolkit
· 2003 · cited 21,261x
- Efficient Hybrid Solar Cells Based on Meso-Superstructured Organometal Halide Perovskites
· 2012 · cited 10,155x
- Geant4 developments and applications
· 2006 · cited 5,877x
- Commensal microbe-derived butyrate induces the differentiation of colonic regulatory T cells
· 2013 · cited 4,960x
- Durvalumab after Chemoradiotherapy in Stage III Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer
· 2017 · cited 3,902x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1952-02-19 ) February 19, 1952 (age 74) , Sasebo, Nagasaki , Japan
- Occupation
- Novelist essayist filmmaker
- Nationality
- Japanese
- Literary movement
- Postmodernism
- Notable works
- Almost Transparent Blue Coin Locker Babies 69 Piercing In the Miso Soup
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Place of birth
- Sasebo
- Occupation
- science fiction writer
- Educated at
- Musashino Art University
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Native language
- Japanese
- Official website
- ryumurakami.com
- Image
- Ryu Murakami.jpg
Show 5 more facts
- date of birth
- 1952-02-19
- name in native language
- 村上 龍
- Commons category
- Ryu Murakami
- birth name
- 村上 龍之助
- name in kana
- むらかみ りゅう
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Ryū Murakami (村上 龍, Murakami Ryū; born February 19, 1952) is a Japanese novelist, essayist and filmmaker. His novels explore human nature through themes of disillusion, drug use, surrealism, murder and war, set against the dark backdrop of Japan. His best known novels are Almost Transparent Blue, Audition, Coin Locker Babies, and In the Miso Soup.
Biography
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