Based on Haruki Murakami‘s first novel and the first in the “Trilogy of the Rat”, a book that the author, embarrassed by it, kept its English translation in obscurity for many years, “Hear the Wind Sing” is essentially an experimentation on how Murakami’s style, which is not exactly made for film material, could translate on the big screen. Let us take things from the beginning though.
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We are first introduced to the protagonist-narrator, a student at a university in Tokyo who has decided he wants to become a writer, but also finds the task terribly painful. As it is summer, he has returned to his seaside hometown in Niigata for vacation, with the suicide of a girl he dated at the university still lingering in his mind. During his time there, he frequents the bar of J, the Chinese...
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We are first introduced to the protagonist-narrator, a student at a university in Tokyo who has decided he wants to become a writer, but also finds the task terribly painful. As it is summer, he has returned to his seaside hometown in Niigata for vacation, with the suicide of a girl he dated at the university still lingering in his mind. During his time there, he frequents the bar of J, the Chinese...
- 9/8/2024
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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