Ryū Murakami

Ryū Murakami is a Japanese novelist, essayist and filmmaker, born in 1952. Murakami's novels move through disillusion, drug use, surrealism, murder and war, with a bleak view of Japan at their center. Almost Transparent Blue, Audition, Coin Locker Babies and In the Miso Soup are among the best known, and Piercing, a psychological thriller, also carries the name on its cover.