Japanese author Haruki Murakami is a celebrated writer of essays, short stories, and novels that have enchanted readers around the world, and the work of Murakami has inspired not only avid bookworms but filmmakers as well. Since the 1980s, both shorts and featured films have been made from his books. Titles like Norwegian Wood, The Elephant Vanishes, and the three novels that make up the Trilogy of the Rat have had such a big influence on Japanese literature that it seems only right these humanist stories would be brought to life on the screen.

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