Haruki Murakami “Journey into Movies”

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Throughout his career, novelist Haruki Murakami has repeatedly referred to movies. In Murakami's novels, movies often play an important role, including when characters watch them or mention their titles in conversation. There is no doubt that movies are close to Murakami's heart, as he frequently mentions them in his essays.

When Murakami was a student at Waseda University, he often visited the theater museum to read movie screenplays he had not yet seen. Through reading screenplays that consisted only of text, he would create images in his mind and construct a singular world. This habit of his school days must have had a great influence on his later creative activities as a novelist, as the artist himself admits.

This exhibition will display numerous materials related to Murakami, including the movie theaters he attended, screenplays read as a student, numerous movies that appear in his essays and novels, and movies that were adapted from his novels. Along with still photographs, posters, scripts, and other film-related materials, the exhibition is structured as a retrospective of the movies Murakami has seen as if he were retracing his journey.

Venue: 2F Thematic Exhibition Room

Schedule

Oct 1 (Sat) 2022-Jan 22 (Sun) 2023