Ryūnosuke Murakami (born February 19, 1952) is a Japanese novelist, short story writer, essayist, screenwriter and filmmaker.
Books written by Murakami with their own pages here:
- Almost Transparent Blue (1976)
- War Begins Beyond the Sea (1977)
- Coin Locker Babies (1980)
- All Right My Friend (1983)
- Melancholy of Tennis Boy (1985)
- Sixty Nine (1987)
- Fascism of Love and Fantasy (1987)
- Raffles Hotel (1989)
- Cocksucker Blues (1991)
- Superconduction Nightclub (1991)
- Ibiza (1992)
- Nagasaki Holland Village (1992)
- Ecstasy (1993)
- Fijian Midget (1993)
- Popular Hits of the Showa Era (1994)
- The World in Five Minutes From Now (1994)
- Piercing (1994)
- Kyoko (1995)
- Huga Virus The World in Five Minutes From Now II (1996)
- Melancholia (1996)
- Love And Pop Topaz II (1996)
- Audition (1997)
- Strange Days (1997)
- In The Miso Soup (1997)
- Lines (1998)
- Parasites (2000)
- Thanatos (2001)
- The Mask Club (2001)
- The Last Family (2001)
- From The Fatherland With Love (2005)
- Singing Whale (2010)
- My Love is Beneath You (2011)
- Old Terrorist (2015)
Tropes found in his works:
- Author Appeal: Cuban music, drugs, sex and poetry.
- Author Avatar: Almost Transparent Blue and Sixty Nine is this.
- Doorstopper: The award goes to From The Fatherland With Love, which runs for 672 pages.
- Genre-Busting: He's tackled roman-à-clef, horror, thriller, psychological, crime, epic, adventure, dystopia and supernatural.
