Popular Hits of the Showa Era

Name: Popular Hits of the Showa Era
Author: Ryu Murakami

by Ryu Murakami

Satire of popularity and cultural trends in Japan's entertainment industry

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Ryu Murakami

Japanese novelist whose debut Almost Transparent Blue won both the Gunzo Prize and the Akutagawa Prize. His brutal, hallucinatory fiction about youth subculture, violence, and social alienation distinguishes him from his namesake Haruki.

More by Ryu Murakami

Almost Transparent BlueNovel of drug addiction and youth alienation in 1970s Tokyo
Coin Locker BabiesDark tale of two abandoned babies raised in a postwar city underworld
In the Miso SoupPsychological thriller about a serial killer and his Western tourist victim in Tokyo
AuditionHorrifying psychological horror exploring obsession and manipulation
PiercingNovella of violence and intimacy between a disturbed man and pregnant woman