@idrepublix, epic posting. Very entertaining to read, but because I know absolutely nothing about this author, I have no reference from which to consider the arguments on either side.
However, your bitter (ok, hateful) words have inspired me to investigate this guy and see what all the fuss is about. So which book would you recommend I read if I were to choose just one? I want a book that is enjoyable but also clearly displays some of the cultural issues/obsessions you are criticizing.
@skilledtrailers I recommend one I just read for my Honor Spanish Class this year, its called After Dark and you can even find it in pdf, I loved it. You can try it out to see if you do too... awesome, japanese lit
It's the sort of book, I can pick up and just flip to any page on a lazy day and read it over and over again. It's like revisiting an old friend, quiet magical. I can never get bored of it.
@AnastasiaGNP if you're white, you'll be salivating and getting horny off of it. because murakami worships white shit like their worthless music and food. the protagonist is forever having pea soup and listening to some pathetic white 'music' from the 50s.
if you're not white, or worse, whitified, then you'll have the intelligence to cut through all that garbage and see what a good writer Murakami is. you'll also realize that he's in no way masterful, but he does have his moments.
@jinnaboy No irony in my parents moving to the motherland of the colonialist rapists after their centuries-long rape of their country and my speaking the language, you cringing fuck. More than fair, and they didn't thieve - like yours - they worked. Lots of irony, tough, in the fucks that were your grandpappies raping my country for so long - and never leanring the language the whole. fucking. time.
@jaygiroux Typical response of a cowardly white fuck like you. No substance, no challenge. Just waffling empty vacillating.
Also, learn to speak and comprehend English. Certainly, Murakami 'can be full of shit', like anyone else - as I said. He isn't holy - no one is. But then you French are pretty holy about your Islamophobia eh? Go back to saving your shit republic by...banning the Hijab. Go on. Be a man!
I don't like the Reiko character in this novel, either, she's getting too much in the way, the whole novel feel so forceful to read whenever she was around.
They could have picked a better looking girl for Midori though, Midori, as described in the novel, was much more reserved & noble than what she looks in the movie.
Oh, how I wish for a film adaptation of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle to once become a cinematic masterpiece.
But yeah, Norwegian Wood is a pretty good book too. Can't wait to see the Mariner (or Storm Trooper, Nazi, whatever he's called in your language) with my own eyes. ;)
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@GracieKiller Murakami always drives an artificial (as in, erm, people actually weren't really quite so Westernized) vein of Westernization through his characters. To a point, it's alright; books are fantasy, and it gives his books the unique flavour they have. In some characters, however, he goes completely overboard with this - like Reiko,the protagonist in Kafka on the Shore, among others. At best, it's annoying, at worst, it ruins the whole book (KotS). Sometimes, Murakami is full of shit.
@GracieKiller Don't get so defnesive, whitey. Your culture and fat men in suits control the world. Isn't that enough for you; do you really have to be so sensitive whenever someone disses Westernized garbage?
Because you're so myopic - ie. you see your worthless white culture forced everywhere in the world, and think it is natural - let me remind you that Reiko's character likes only Western music, taught piano, is a leftist, and a skank. These are all white attributes. Understand, whitey? Peace
I get it now; you're an angry, bitter Asian racist that hates whites. I asked how Reiko represents "Westernization", and you answer with a bunch of garbage not even in the novel (she is not a "skank" nor a "leftist").
You're a confused, racist idiot, who lashes out at what he considers "Westernization", whatever that even means.
Just know that if you were man enough to spew that garbage to me or anyone else in public, we would shut your smelly mouth for you, permanently.
@GracieKiller You get the answer you asked for, you fucking imbecile. I said nothing about Reiko 'representing Westernization' - when you attempt to drive your own words into another's mouth, fucktad, expect vitriol. Particularly when, after centuries of the rape and pillage of non-whites, you dare act innocent of the specter of Westernization; again, as though its imposition worldwide is, to you, happy and natural. Reiko is both of those things; and you, a piece of shit hiding behind a monitor.
Haha, it's so funny to see a filthy, miserable, subuhuman racist boil over with such rage. (Not to mention turn a discussion of a character in a book into one about how much he hates whites and the "West")
But you're the one "hiding behind a monitor"; if you ever dared to say half this shit to my face, I would fucking end you, as would any self-respecting non-Asian.
Just realize you're a cowardly, piece of shit 35 year old idiot racist who will die bitter and alone.
"War correspondent Edgar L. Jones wrote in the February 1946 Atlantic Monthly, “What kind of war do civilians suppose we fought anyway? We shot prisoners in cold blood, wiped out hospitals, strafed lifeboats, killed or mistreated enemy civilians, finished off the enemy wounded, tossed the dying into a hole with the dead, and in the Pacific boiled flesh off enemy skulls to make table ornaments for sweethearts, or carved their bones into letter openers."
@GracieKiller Addendum, whitefuck: I will let you have the floor, gracious as I am. Let's be gracious enough to assume, kindly, that your sidestepping of every mention of white oppression, colonization, brutality and butchery of nonwhites is due to the....well, perhaps the YouTube comment character limit. Bombastically unrealistic, but let's give you that - and not assume that you were just being a little white bitch.
So - your response on white brutality, then, you bitch. The floor is yours.
Ladies and gentlemen, it takes a truly miserable, demented, pathetic racist to turn a discussion about a character in a Murakami novel (Reiko) into a crazed filibuster about "white oppression".
You're a sad, sick idiot, idrepublix, who shouldn't be allowed outside, but kept sedated in the nuthouse. But if a lunatic like yourself ever decides to harass anyone in real life; white, black, or Asian, with your drivel, rest assured you will be put down. Like the trash that you are.
@GracieKiller Love it. You know, the way the whitefuck Brits called the Chinese 'miserable, demented, pathetic' for opposing their drugging up of China, when they tried to ban opium imports. And so, of course, the Brits decided to 'put down' the Chinese for being 'lunatics' - by killing them. And so it has come to for you.
Rather than try to explain why Reiko isn't Western - or challenge anything I said - you issue a death threat. A death threat, on the internet. You manly man. Like Haditha!
I'm about done indulging your lunacy, but no, Reiko isn't "Western" just because she happens to like the Beatles or play the piano.
Only a racist idiot like yourself would make such a connection. And don't lump yourself in with any Asian group or their historical plight; you and you alone are miserable, demented, and pathetic, and virtually all Asians would see you for the moronic, hate-mongering trash that you are.
@GracieKiller Your silence is golden, you sick white fuck. Silence, not indulgence; the latter would, of course, have involved your response to your race's destructive actions for the past eight centuries. But you, of course, are a weak fuck, resorting to pointing fingers at 'lunacy' - defined by anything that dissents with your piece of shit white mind, if we may, indeed call it a mind - and of course, the beloved death threat. Being aggressive and being a fucking bitch - that's you, whitefuck.
@GracieKiller Let's also celebrate the goalpost-shifting I knew you would resort to - first you decry Asians - 'any self-respecting Asian' would 'end' me, yes? - and then when confronted time and again with the ugliness of your shit race, you try to make friends out of them! Ah, but for the easy target the stupid, unintelligent, mongrel dog the white man makes of himself! Fuck off and celebrate the Haditha massacre with a nice rendition of Hadji Girl, you fucking fuck. It's the American Way.
@GracieKiller "War correspondent Edgar L. Jones wrote in the February 1946 Atlantic Monthly, “What kind of war do civilians suppose we fought anyway? We shot prisoners in cold blood, wiped out hospitals, strafed lifeboats, killed or mistreated enemy civilians, finished off the enemy wounded, tossed the dying into a hole with the dead, and in the Pacific boiled flesh off enemy skulls to make table ornaments for sweethearts, or carved their bones into letter openers."
@idrepublix Literature are full of shit, it just matters if the 'shit' touches you on a personal level or not and when it does sink deeply enough, it becomes something quiet magical. :]
I am reading this book now, I have no idea tht they have made it into a movie. I love this story, it's so well written. Really draws me into it. Bravo! Hope the movie is as good.
Finally got to see the movie a few days ago. Very faithful to the novel, well-made and truly beautiful. I did not know this, but Haruki Murakami actually co-wrote the script as well.
I cannot wait for it to get released so I could re-watch it.
@idrepublix, epic posting. Very entertaining to read, but because I know absolutely nothing about this author, I have no reference from which to consider the arguments on either side.
However, your bitter (ok, hateful) words have inspired me to investigate this guy and see what all the fuss is about. So which book would you recommend I read if I were to choose just one? I want a book that is enjoyable but also clearly displays some of the cultural issues/obsessions you are criticizing.
skilledtrailers 4 months ago
@skilledtrailers I recommend one I just read for my Honor Spanish Class this year, its called After Dark and you can even find it in pdf, I loved it. You can try it out to see if you do too... awesome, japanese lit
Jazira13 2 months ago
It's the sort of book, I can pick up and just flip to any page on a lazy day and read it over and over again. It's like revisiting an old friend, quiet magical. I can never get bored of it.
MOMOKI1000 4 months ago
What is the book like, please? :-]
AnastasiaGNP 6 months ago
@AnastasiaGNP if you're white, you'll be salivating and getting horny off of it. because murakami worships white shit like their worthless music and food. the protagonist is forever having pea soup and listening to some pathetic white 'music' from the 50s.
if you're not white, or worse, whitified, then you'll have the intelligence to cut through all that garbage and see what a good writer Murakami is. you'll also realize that he's in no way masterful, but he does have his moments.
idrepublix 5 months ago
@idrepublix Hmmm... well thank you :) Erm, I'm half Russian, half Mexican... but I promise to cut through the 'garbage' :D
oh and what do you mean by " 'music' "
AnastasiaGNP 5 months ago
@idrepublix I can't get over the irony of you typing in english
jinnaboy 3 months ago 2
@jinnaboy No irony in my parents moving to the motherland of the colonialist rapists after their centuries-long rape of their country and my speaking the language, you cringing fuck. More than fair, and they didn't thieve - like yours - they worked. Lots of irony, tough, in the fucks that were your grandpappies raping my country for so long - and never leanring the language the whole. fucking. time.
You=fail.
idrepublix 3 months ago
ken'ichi kun, let me know where is yukihiro san. can't find him in a movie. Harry did a good job,thou.
originallove911 6 months ago
Murakami rules, defenitely my favorite modern writer...
The book is amazing although I like "Dance dance dance" more
ladybuuug 7 months ago
@jaygiroux Typical response of a cowardly white fuck like you. No substance, no challenge. Just waffling empty vacillating.
Also, learn to speak and comprehend English. Certainly, Murakami 'can be full of shit', like anyone else - as I said. He isn't holy - no one is. But then you French are pretty holy about your Islamophobia eh? Go back to saving your shit republic by...banning the Hijab. Go on. Be a man!
idrepublix 8 months ago
@MiaBratinovah really? damn the book is really amazing and I expect this movie would equal the book, is it that bad??
roendm 9 months ago
One of the best books I've read in a past few years - Norwegian Wood!! AMAZING!
DemonRuby 9 months ago
it's beautiful
mandyak999 11 months ago
love the book & movie
sunita89 11 months ago
Yay a Beatle song for a title
Keewaf 1 year ago
i love Rinko Kikuchi
bublegumjp 1 year ago
i want to watch it online for free. do you know where i can do so?
zariefqist 1 year ago
I don't like the Reiko character in this novel, either, she's getting too much in the way, the whole novel feel so forceful to read whenever she was around.
They could have picked a better looking girl for Midori though, Midori, as described in the novel, was much more reserved & noble than what she looks in the movie.
bta1987 1 year ago
plz f anyone has a copy of this movie or a link to download plz share it to us.. i really want to watch the movie...
acquaisces 1 year ago
Tran Anh Hung is always awesome :)
phongv 1 year ago
Beautiful Movie, seen it yesterday in the cinecitta its a cinema in the Netherlands.
Reinierbonis 1 year ago
I certainly didn't imagine Reiko to be that hot.
AleXcr86 1 year ago
Annother film by Tran Anh Hung! Can't wait to see it!
changmin510 1 year ago
Does anyone knows when it's coming to Mexico?
alguien sabe cuando se va a estrenar en méxico?
TheBlueGirlAnime 1 year ago
Does anyone knows when it's coming to Mexico?
alguien sabe cuando se va a estrenar en méxico?
TheBlueGirlAnime 1 year ago
@TheBlueGirlAnime La pregunta es: "Vendra a Mexico?" Ojala que sí, la novela es MARAVILLOSA!
Independientemovies 1 year ago
Si no fuese así ojalá y se pueda descargar de alguna pagina no??
excelente historia coincido
pachecuss001 1 year ago
can't wait for this!
shinreifreakz 1 year ago
I read the book ages ago so I was ready to watch this!!!!! Wen wud it be out on dvd so us English can see it?? lol or will it show over here???
sumone help me d:
Kenichi-sama!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<33333333333333333333
LOVE of my life d: (:
Abi969 1 year ago
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 LOVE!
hanzkafka 1 year ago
i don't like the choice for midori. at all :(
but i'll wait and see...
scofield13 1 year ago
Toru is attractive!!! Much more so in the film than what I imagined.
floatingtrains 1 year ago
it's actually "norwegian wood" by the beatles :)
ponkersbonkers 1 year ago
Norwegian Wood - The Beatles
VVVVVVV
meenlovelovemeen 1 year ago
whats the song on the end?
bmwar 1 year ago
just finished the book, I can't wait to see this!
ryanryanmusikahan 1 year ago 11
Oh, how I wish for a film adaptation of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle to once become a cinematic masterpiece.
But yeah, Norwegian Wood is a pretty good book too. Can't wait to see the Mariner (or Storm Trooper, Nazi, whatever he's called in your language) with my own eyes. ;)
Marphis 1 year ago
@Marphis WUBC is my favourite Murakami book, but I cannot imagine how that could ever work as a film
ClownFallsDown 1 year ago
Reiko always annoyed you? Why? Like all of the characters in "Norwegian Wood", she is very deep, interesting, and central to the themes of the work.
GracieKiller 1 year ago 4
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@GracieKiller Murakami always drives an artificial (as in, erm, people actually weren't really quite so Westernized) vein of Westernization through his characters. To a point, it's alright; books are fantasy, and it gives his books the unique flavour they have. In some characters, however, he goes completely overboard with this - like Reiko,the protagonist in Kafka on the Shore, among others. At best, it's annoying, at worst, it ruins the whole book (KotS). Sometimes, Murakami is full of shit.
idrepublix 1 year ago
@idrepublix
Uh, okay... how does she represent "Westernization"?
GracieKiller 1 year ago
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@GracieKiller Don't get so defnesive, whitey. Your culture and fat men in suits control the world. Isn't that enough for you; do you really have to be so sensitive whenever someone disses Westernized garbage?
Because you're so myopic - ie. you see your worthless white culture forced everywhere in the world, and think it is natural - let me remind you that Reiko's character likes only Western music, taught piano, is a leftist, and a skank. These are all white attributes. Understand, whitey? Peace
idrepublix 1 year ago
@idrepublix
I get it now; you're an angry, bitter Asian racist that hates whites. I asked how Reiko represents "Westernization", and you answer with a bunch of garbage not even in the novel (she is not a "skank" nor a "leftist").
You're a confused, racist idiot, who lashes out at what he considers "Westernization", whatever that even means.
Just know that if you were man enough to spew that garbage to me or anyone else in public, we would shut your smelly mouth for you, permanently.
GracieKiller 1 year ago 2
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@GracieKiller You get the answer you asked for, you fucking imbecile. I said nothing about Reiko 'representing Westernization' - when you attempt to drive your own words into another's mouth, fucktad, expect vitriol. Particularly when, after centuries of the rape and pillage of non-whites, you dare act innocent of the specter of Westernization; again, as though its imposition worldwide is, to you, happy and natural. Reiko is both of those things; and you, a piece of shit hiding behind a monitor.
idrepublix 1 year ago
@idrepublix
Haha, it's so funny to see a filthy, miserable, subuhuman racist boil over with such rage. (Not to mention turn a discussion of a character in a book into one about how much he hates whites and the "West")
But you're the one "hiding behind a monitor"; if you ever dared to say half this shit to my face, I would fucking end you, as would any self-respecting non-Asian.
Just realize you're a cowardly, piece of shit 35 year old idiot racist who will die bitter and alone.
GracieKiller 1 year ago
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@GracieKiller
"War correspondent Edgar L. Jones wrote in the February 1946 Atlantic Monthly, “What kind of war do civilians suppose we fought anyway? We shot prisoners in cold blood, wiped out hospitals, strafed lifeboats, killed or mistreated enemy civilians, finished off the enemy wounded, tossed the dying into a hole with the dead, and in the Pacific boiled flesh off enemy skulls to make table ornaments for sweethearts, or carved their bones into letter openers."
This is you, whitefuck.
idrepublix 1 year ago
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@GracieKiller Addendum, whitefuck: I will let you have the floor, gracious as I am. Let's be gracious enough to assume, kindly, that your sidestepping of every mention of white oppression, colonization, brutality and butchery of nonwhites is due to the....well, perhaps the YouTube comment character limit. Bombastically unrealistic, but let's give you that - and not assume that you were just being a little white bitch.
So - your response on white brutality, then, you bitch. The floor is yours.
idrepublix 1 year ago
@idrepublix
Ladies and gentlemen, it takes a truly miserable, demented, pathetic racist to turn a discussion about a character in a Murakami novel (Reiko) into a crazed filibuster about "white oppression".
You're a sad, sick idiot, idrepublix, who shouldn't be allowed outside, but kept sedated in the nuthouse. But if a lunatic like yourself ever decides to harass anyone in real life; white, black, or Asian, with your drivel, rest assured you will be put down. Like the trash that you are.
GracieKiller 1 year ago 2
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@GracieKiller Love it. You know, the way the whitefuck Brits called the Chinese 'miserable, demented, pathetic' for opposing their drugging up of China, when they tried to ban opium imports. And so, of course, the Brits decided to 'put down' the Chinese for being 'lunatics' - by killing them. And so it has come to for you.
Rather than try to explain why Reiko isn't Western - or challenge anything I said - you issue a death threat. A death threat, on the internet. You manly man. Like Haditha!
idrepublix 1 year ago
@idrepublix
I'm about done indulging your lunacy, but no, Reiko isn't "Western" just because she happens to like the Beatles or play the piano.
Only a racist idiot like yourself would make such a connection. And don't lump yourself in with any Asian group or their historical plight; you and you alone are miserable, demented, and pathetic, and virtually all Asians would see you for the moronic, hate-mongering trash that you are.
GracieKiller 1 year ago 2
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@GracieKiller Your silence is golden, you sick white fuck. Silence, not indulgence; the latter would, of course, have involved your response to your race's destructive actions for the past eight centuries. But you, of course, are a weak fuck, resorting to pointing fingers at 'lunacy' - defined by anything that dissents with your piece of shit white mind, if we may, indeed call it a mind - and of course, the beloved death threat. Being aggressive and being a fucking bitch - that's you, whitefuck.
idrepublix 1 year ago
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@GracieKiller Let's also celebrate the goalpost-shifting I knew you would resort to - first you decry Asians - 'any self-respecting Asian' would 'end' me, yes? - and then when confronted time and again with the ugliness of your shit race, you try to make friends out of them! Ah, but for the easy target the stupid, unintelligent, mongrel dog the white man makes of himself! Fuck off and celebrate the Haditha massacre with a nice rendition of Hadji Girl, you fucking fuck. It's the American Way.
idrepublix 1 year ago
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@GracieKiller "War correspondent Edgar L. Jones wrote in the February 1946 Atlantic Monthly, “What kind of war do civilians suppose we fought anyway? We shot prisoners in cold blood, wiped out hospitals, strafed lifeboats, killed or mistreated enemy civilians, finished off the enemy wounded, tossed the dying into a hole with the dead, and in the Pacific boiled flesh off enemy skulls to make table ornaments for sweethearts, or carved their bones into letter openers."
Respond, you fuck.
idrepublix 1 year ago
@idrepublix Literature are full of shit, it just matters if the 'shit' touches you on a personal level or not and when it does sink deeply enough, it becomes something quiet magical. :]
MOMOKI1000 4 months ago
I am reading this book now, I have no idea tht they have made it into a movie. I love this story, it's so well written. Really draws me into it. Bravo! Hope the movie is as good.
onarandomnote 1 year ago
That's amazing, I had no idea he was involved.
Glad to hear your review...seeing it is going to be a really special moment...
idrepublix 1 year ago
Finally got to see the movie a few days ago. Very faithful to the novel, well-made and truly beautiful. I did not know this, but Haruki Murakami actually co-wrote the script as well.
I cannot wait for it to get released so I could re-watch it.
Aghamorad 1 year ago 6