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	In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami \| PopMatters Book Review
		In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami
		Murakami was well regarded for his bravado in dealing with the subject matter so bluntly, and that reputation won him a new international interest in his much more prolific literary career, where fans were not disappointed to find the same vivid, often perverse close-up zoom on social aberrations as a regular feature.
		Murakami only takes the audience directly into one scene of violence in the story, describing in surreal, morbidly clear detail a moment where Frank unleashes himself onto a small club, but it's enough to impact everything else in the book, letting the sinister atmosphere carry the rest of the story.
	www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/i/in-the-miso-soup.shtml (1740 words)

	:: Metro Pulse Online ::
		Ryu Murakami, like fellow author, countryman, and unrelated namesake Haruki Murakami, was born in post-World War II Japan, emerging as an award-winning and very popular writer in the ’70s, first in Japan and then subsequently worldwide.
		As members of the post-Occupation generation, Ryu and Haruki were the first writers to incorporate frequent Western cultural references into Japanese fiction, to mixed critical reception in their own country (and causing some identity confusion between them among non-Japanese readers).
		In the works of Ryu and Haruki, as in the contemporary Japan they were both born and raised in, Western fashions, cuisine, sports, and iconography flourish, contributing significantly to their novels’ accessibility for U.S. audiences as well as lending a somewhat surreal air to their fiction.
	www.metropulse.com /articles/2006/16_22/pulp.shtml (538 words)

	Amazon.com: buying info: Kant in 90 Minutes (Philosophers in 90 Minutes)
		Ryu Murakami wrote Almost Transparent Blue in the early 1970’s, when he was still a student in art school.
		Through the eyes of Ryu, an artistically inclined young college student, the reader of Almost Transparent Blue is immersed into a drug-laced world of wild orgies, sporadic violence, hard rock and passive self-destruction.
		Ryu spends most of his time shooting up heroine in the company of his friends, a group young Japanese living on the margins of society, having sex with his older prostitute mistress and participating in group sex with fl soldiers from a nearby American military base.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/jmurphy/JPT3121file/BLUE.HTM (839 words)

	KJ Selections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		As autobiographical fiction, Ryu's Cinematheque fills the gap between 69 and Almost Transparent Blue, and the style is somewhere between the flippant frivolity of the former and the dark obsessiveness of the latter.
		Ryu: The important point is precisely that you can no longer neatly categorize "Japanese children of today." Japan is a country where group consciousness became so highly developed that "loneliness" was not a concept that existed for any but a very few, marginalized individuals.
		Ryu: I didn't want to be protected by the "system" (by which I mean corporate employment and so on—I'm fine with being protected by the fire department and police), because the system asks for loyalty in return.
	www.kyotojournal.org /kjselections/kjryu.html (2909 words)

	Review \| In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami
		Murakami manages to cram so many thoughts and ideas into his slender book, it seems entirely possible that the whole thing is metaphor.
		Murakami's bio informs us that he is "Renaissance man for the postmodern age" and so, of course, he doesn't condemn compensated dating -- no one who labels themselves thus could -- but neither does he support it.
		Murakami is the author of over 40 books and has directed four films.
	www.januarymagazine.com /fiction/inthemisosoup.html (1099 words)

	Amazon.de: Coin Locker Babies (Japanese for Busy People): English Books: Ryu Murakami,Stephen Snyder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		von Ryu Murakami, Stephen Snyder (Übersetzer) "The woman pushed on the baby's stomach and sucked its penis into her mouth; it was thinner than the American menthols she smoked and a..." (mehr)
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		At times, Murakami rambles, as in the case of a taxi driver's pointless monologue or the long interviews with women who might be Hashi's mother.
	www.amazon.de /Coin-Locker-Babies-Japanese-People/dp/4770028962 (1307 words)

	Ryu Murakami : In the Miso Soup : Book Review
		Certainly, at the core, as in Murakami's other work, there is a heavy dose of social commentary regarding the prevalence of alienation in modern Japanese society and a critique of materialism.
		Ryu Murakami was born in 1952 and grew up in Sasebo City, Nagasaki, Japan, whre U.S. Navy's harbor is located.
		Ryu Murakami has also played drums for a rock group, hosted a TV talk show and producer of Cuban music..
	mostlyfiction.com /mystery/murakami_ryu.htm (666 words)

	ArtandCulture Artist: Ryu Murakami (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Murakami answers enigmatically with another question: "But important things do calm us and enrage us at the same time, don't they?" Certainly so, but they do not provide any tidy answers.
		Murakami may be Japan's "enfant terrible," but he sure is insightful.
		Erickson and Murakami discuss such weighty topics as "self-expanding into the world of unconsciousness," the "breakdown of the family," and the musicality of life.
	www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=1054 (580 words)

	Daily Yomiuri On-Line
		However, Ryu Murakami--a prolific novelist, film director and producer of Cuban music--stresses that these turbulent times provide a golden opportunity for Japanese, who are at a loss and no longer enjoy the protection of communities as they once did, to confront this so-called sense of crisis and change their mind-set.
		Ryu Murakami was born in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Feb. 19, 1952.
		As a student of Sasebo-Kita Prefectural High School, Murakami was intrigued by a move launched by members of the National Federation of Students Self-Government Association to prohibit the U.S. nuclear aircraft carrier Enterprise from entering Sasebo port.
	www.yomiuri.co.jp /intview/0223dy17.htm (2190 words)

	Haruki Murakami's 'Dance Dance Dance' and Ryu Murakami's 'Sixty-Nine' Reviews by David Louis Edelman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Ryu Murakami's novel Sixty-Nine also deals with Western cultural invasion, but his attitude is the polar opposite of Haruki Murakami's.
		Ryu's slight roman a clef about his high school days delves into the Japanese youth rebellion of the late '60s, a time of reaction against Western imperialism in Vietnam.
		Murakami describes a Japan divided by marijuana brownies and Vietnam protests acted to the beat of The Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Janis Joplin.
	www.davidlouisedelman.com /reviews/murakami.cfm (746 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: In the Miso Soup: Books: Ryu Murakami,Ralph McCarthy
		Murakami wrote the screenplay for the deeply nasty film "Audition".
		The writing style is much more fluid and rich than other Japanese novels I've read, such as Haruki Murakami's, though I'm never sure exactly how much of that is down to the translator rather than the original author.
		Ryu does a wonderful job of keeping you gripped and constantly reading page after page just to find out what's going to happen and...
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0747574057/qid=1138227468/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/026-5987910-8634851 (997 words)

	In the Miso Soup - Murakami Ryu
		But Murakami is not satisfied to be a purveyor of sleazy sensationalism and insists on posing as the writer of "relevance" that some of his admirers have made him out to be." -
		Murakami plays with some good ideas here, but the actions that go with the thoughts are cartoonishly exaggerated, from the true Frank to Kenji's reactions.
		In the Miso Soup is an ambitious novel, but unfortunately Murakami seems to believe that such grand ambitions require everything in the book (especially the violence) to be on a similarly grand scale; it is a terrible miscalculation.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/japannew/murakr1.htm (1311 words)

	Amazon.com: Coin Locker Babies: Books: Ryu Murakami,Stephen Snyder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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		Murakami treaded these waters in such previous works as Sixty-Nine and Audition while adding his own touches to the mix; in Coin Locker Babies, Murakami has fully assimilated the spirit of Mishima while simultaneously strengthening his own voice into something that is both complete and stunning.
		Murakami is all of these things and more (though one wonders, idly, if the reviewers have ever been exposed to Hideshi Hino); he stands, at present, as Japan's most brilliant writer whose works have been translated into English.
	www.amazon.com /Coin-Locker-Babies-Ryu-Murakami/dp/4770028962 (3204 words)

	Ryu Murakami - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born Ryūnosuke Murakami (村上龍之助 Murakami Ryūnosuke), he is not related to Haruki Murakami or Takashi Murakami.
		Murakami's first work, the short novel Almost Transparent Blue, deals with promiscuity and drug use among disaffected Japanese youth.
		Murakami reportedly liked it so much he gave Miike his blessing to adapt Coin Locker Babies, however, Miike could not raise funding for the project.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ryu_Murakami (185 words)

	Ryu Murakami: In the Miso Soup - Japan-101 Community
		Ryu Murakami, not relative to Haruki Murakami, is famous of his earlier novels "Almost Transparent Blue" and "Coin Locker Babies".
		Ryu Murakami's books sold millions of copies while he was still student.
		I too am a Murakami Haruki fan and have read all his English publications apart from his latest offerings.
	www.japan-101.com /forums/showthread.php?t=260 (364 words)

	In The Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami « Book Review « ReadySteadyBook - a literary site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In these central scenes – based in one of Tokyo’s omiai ‘match-making’ pubs – the urban grubbiness of the early half of the novel is replaced by a set piece of sickening violence that is both compelling and repulsive.
		Though Kenji has a young girlfriend she does not really figure in the proceedings and Murakami seems more interested in the relationship that develops between Kenji and Frank, a warped form of friendship, fuelled by fear but also by fascination.
		Murakami in particular details the idea of ‘compensated dating,’ of usually well-off Japanese girls who will enter into sexual relationships only in return for a stream of expensive gifts.
	www.readysteadybook.com /BookReview.aspx?isbn=0747578885 (592 words)

	Amazon.com: In the Miso Soup: Books: Ryu Murakami,Ralph McCarthy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		With an ever increasing tension developing in the background, Murakami does an Japanese Hopper in describing the desolation on the local night owls, decries the emptiness of current Japanese society and hints at a link between the dead of the Japanese spirit and the American counter attack on the homeland during the Second World War.
		America lies within Murakami's cross-hairs as well, but Frank's function is as much to personify America's problems as it is to serve as the "outsider's eye" on Japan's issues.
		Like most other Murakami stories, violence is both destructive and cathartic, and it is in the scene at the club that the reader fully comprehends Murakami's message.
	www.amazon.com /Miso-Soup-Ryu-Murakami/dp/014303569X (2820 words)

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	Ryu Murakami (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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	village voice > books > In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami by Mary Jacobi
		With Almost Transparent Blue (1976) Ryu Murakami emerged as a chronicler of Japan's lost generation, the disaffected kids who grew up in the shadow of WW II with the singular burden of living in an increasingly wealthy country.
		Kenji guides his client through the raffish charms of the city's sex center, with its neon, touts, and dingy interiors, but the enigmatic Frank seems to have more than sex on his mind, and exhibits worrying signs of violence and instability.
		Murakami's cynical depiction of Japanese prostitution departs from his more sympathetic Tokyo Decadence (1991), the coke-fueled s&m farce that he wrote and directed.
	www.villagevoice.com /books/0405,jacobi,50709,10.html (675 words)

	Ryu Murakami
		Born in Nagasaki in 1952, Murakami's given name is Murakami Ryunosuke.
		He became both a novelist and film maker, and received the Yomiuri Literary Award in 1998 for In the Miso Soup.
		His film "Tokyo Decadence" was premiered at Toronto Film festival in 1992.
	www.csua.berkeley.edu /~raytrace/lit/authors/r_murakami (55 words)

	Murakami - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Murakami Gennosuke, fictional character in the Usagi Yojimbo comic book series
		Takashi Murakami (村上隆), modern artist and founder of the Superflat movement
		Yoshiaki Murakami (村上世彰), corporate raider and president of MandA Consulting
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Murakami (103 words)

	Coin Locker Babies (Japan's Modern Writers S.) by Ryu Murakami, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 4770023081
		A surreal coming-of-age tale that establishes Ryu Murakami as one of the most inventive young writers in the world today.
		Abandoned at birth in adjacent train station lockers, two troubled boys spend their youth in an orphanage and with foster parents on a semi-deserted island before finally setting off for the city to find and destroy the women who first rejected them.
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	www.bookfinder4u.com /detail/4770023081.html (430 words)

	TIMEasia.com \| GizmoLand! \| Japan's Lost Generation \| 5/1/2000 - 5/8/2000
		• Essay: Ryu Murakami bemoans the alienation of youth
		If the culture cannot adjust and drowns in a tsunami of technology, Japan will end up sinking even deeper into a labyrinth of confusion.
		Japanese novelist and film director Ryu Murakami won one of the country's top literary prizes in 1976 for his first novel Almost Transparent Blue.
	www.time.com /time/asia/magazine/2000/0501/japan.essaymurakami.html (992 words)

	Ryu Murakami (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		I found Coin Locker Babies while looking for some stuff by Haruki Murakami at Powells.
		The first sentence caught my attention: "The woman pushed on the baby's stomach and sucked its penis into her mouth; it was thinner than the American menthols she smoked and a bit slimy, like raw fish." Disturbing but fascination at once.
		And in fact, much of the book was also.
	www.kbuxton.com /books/reviews/rmurakami.html (65 words)

	Amazon.fr : Ecstasy: Livres: Ryû Murakami (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Encore une fois, Murakami plonge au plus noir de notre réalité pour donner voix à ces " Monologues sur le plaisir, la lassitude et la mort ".
		Murakami plonge au plus noir de notre réalité pour donner voix à ces « Monologues sur le plaisir, la lassitude et la mort ».
		Cette trilogie restera une des plus médiocre de Murakami après le très décevant Parasites.
	www.amazon.fr /Ecstasy-Ry%C3%BB-Murakami/dp/2877306410 (666 words)

	Powell's Books - In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami
		Through simple yet chilling language, Murakami doesn't condemn his characters."
		The overweight American tourist made a big show of being delighted to see me. It was a moment I won't forget — the first time I ever met Frank.
		So starts In the Miso Soup and the wild ride through the underbelly of Tokyo that only Ryu Murakami can provide.
	www.powells.com /biblio?show=HARDCOVER:NEW:4770029578:22.95 (969 words)

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	Ryu Murakami. In the Miso Soup.(Book Review) - Journal, Magazine, Article, Periodical
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		CONTAINING ALL THE REQUIRED ELEMENTS, from the sorcery and Satanism of medieval Europe to a grisly mass murder in contemporary Japan, Ryu Murakami's recent release In the Miso Soup belongs to the horror novel category.
		The story, however, is more than an entertaining escapist narrative in that it exposes the dark side of Japan's consumer economy.
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