On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl - Haruki Murakami

[alexlovescherylx]

why did you miss the important ending??

[Rocketboy5]

Nice work.

[logotrix]

I loved your reading of this - beautiful delivery.  It is the oddest thing to know that people share these sames sorts of feelings about people...I think the genius of Murakami is that he takes these feelings that are so often discarded and writes them down - and the reader knows exactly what he's talking about...the shared experience of meeting the 100 % perfect stranger....

[karrado4]

That is a beautiful adaptation of the story, but I really wish you would have included what he would have said to her, it's my favourite part!

[byvalm]

Nice adaptation of Haruki Murakami's story!

[Lawlietrock]

Me gustó, bastante...MAGNIFICO TRABAJO!

[riseabove24]

i think his stories are primarily meant to distort what would be widely accepted as the traditional sense of value. that is, modern authors seem to create narratives with cues that simply elicit responses that were paired with those same general cues throughout our pasts (ie, the homogeneity of values within the target audience). murakami seems to take a different approach, he makes the most mundane actions seem out of the ordinary and vice versa. thats what i like, the ambiguitys almost creepy

[alexisgonzaludo]

this video perfectly captured the essence of murkami. a lot of people pay too much attention to the physical details like the character's ethnicities or the setting, but they are mostly irrelavent details. a major theme of murakami's work is suffering and dealing with loss, which is a part of the human experience. when reading murakami, cultural differences are not as apparent since people will identify more with emotions provoked by universal issues (death, romance, coming-of-age).

[o0Affinity0o]

hmmm....I'm honestly not meaning this to be racist, but I think that the story may have been better with actors of asian descent. Haha, no offense intended, just that when I read this story I imagined the speaker as a handsome asian man, not a small white man with glasses. See what I'm saying? :)

[sapphchick]

@o0Affinity0o Would that really affect the story so much? I think not, it's quite universal, speaker could be male/female, any race, any age and still, it works. That's what's beautiful about the simplicity of the piece.

[stupid02]

Great!! the way u tell this story is just simply out of the box!!

[cdunwood]

I think this is better than the finished story. The voice acting is incredible. Director really knows how to do a voice over. really, kudos

[desiderata143]

hmm.. not in tokYo but in Tempe, Arizona. would that be correct? nwayz, wonderful wonderful video. u missed some part but im sure Murakami would still love it like we do. Kudos!

[desiderata143]

i started reading Murakami last year. and i fell in love with "kafka on the shore". and then came, this video. i've read this short story 6yrs ago, it captured my heart but i didnt know who wrote it. i just cant believe its

Murakami. guess kafka is not my 1st Murakami experience after all

[OM3N1R]

This was an extremely simple story and you captured it simply magnificently!

Now for a Wind Up Bird movie! (just kidding I will not request the impossible!)

[Anchiovy]

100% wonderful video

[gammergq]

Where could I find more short stories of this kind of romantic mystic nature this story is amazing.

[kokujin72]

nice job, but y didnt u finish it ? There was alittle bit more to the story and i felt that that little bit really made the short story tie together and made it great. Anyways, still for what u did do, good job.

[theagnostix]

MH is a wonderful author

[Paul186]

Great ,soulful, interpretation.

[FranceschinaSacca]

I am reading these days The Elephant Vanishes and this short story is part of it. It's the one 'til now (have not finished yet) that caught most of all. The nice fairy tale is sweet and maybe true in life. Murakami always surprises me.

[gammergq]

Where could I find more romantic magic stories of this kind?

[superlox3]

Speaking as a huge fan of Murakami, I must say that I really liked how you captured the simplicity of this piece. Your film making is great, and I congratulate you on making a fantastic short film!

[lilsonic206]

you make puppies cry~~~~~~~~~~

[lilsonic206]

you fucking suck donkey dick you blow......im going to do this a hell of a lot better you dike diver

[revolotus]

good job on this - I've been looking at how people "do" Murakami all over YT - I love how everyone seems to have a different voice of his they hear - cinematography is great

[whereisurheartmybaby]

wow,u left out alot of it,n yea if anybody would really like to have illustrations for the story u should check out this japanese manga(what we call it comic).The name is 100%perfect girl by Wann it's a really interesting manga that greatly relates to this story

[shimmeringreflection]

Great stuff -- I felt quite emotional at the end of that. I think I've had similar thoughts before, and this is what makes Murakami so good at what he does: We relate to his unusual view of the world.

[StarVenusshinning]

that's why there is Craiglist,Missed Connections section and you will find the one u didn't had courage to approach by.

[ellecrane1]

Really nice interpretation of the story- I liked the way you made it your own yet retained the atmosphere of Murakami's writing. And it wasn't overblown like the film version of Toni Takitani. Well done.

[StephenKuma]

i think moloko is on to something...but i love reading his books. personally i think sputnik sweetheart was better than norwegian wood.

[1234sss]

this is really good man. it's interesting how the story is presen

[TalkingMoviezzz]

Well done for the most part, but why leave out one of the most important parts of the story, what he would have said? That was the most memorable part of it, for me.

[RowanSpry]

Well, moloko36 you're wrong. Your opinion is just...incorrect.

Revise it.

:P

[falseauthentic]

fair statements moloko36. in my humble opinion there's more then that to Murakami's work. i tend to think there is subtle genius in the way his characters are portrayed and/or created, w/ storylines that whisper emotions, and echo an unknown/familiar memory. his modest manner and matter a fact way draws this reader in. he is a author who may have nothing to say (to some), but who presents that nothing in such a way that it may very well be something more. this skill's at least above average?

[magegirl8]

@moloko36 aura is everything. Aura is more important than anything else. Aura can transform a solid, unchangeable, concrete object and turn it into something else entirely, without changing any of it's physical or chemical properties.

[tomaszbethell]

this has grown on me, but i still can't condone this story though you, dan, are fantastic

[ImprobProductions]

i lied. I can hear the voiceover now. murakami is a wonderful, and I think you did this story justice.

[ImprobProductions]

i actually liked it. the voiceover cannot be heard though. I really like the cinematography

[DefectiveQueen]

I really like the voice of the guy! It was 100% perfect :)

[friendsofthefruitsof]

yes it was as memoriless as she was.

captured his trite and repeating feeling quite accurately

[rodgerswan]

yeah, of all the versions i've seen done of this, this one is easily the best version. Great job.

[mbhwee]

I agree with the previous commenter, your lead actor definately has the right kind of voice for the voiceovers in this short film. I'm abit curious about the setting of the film, is there any specific meaning or themes by placing him in a dark room?

Great short though :)

[natsala]

I love this story, one of my favourite short stories from Murakami.

[Branner]

That was pretty nice. You're one of the better actors at narrating this story (at least from what's posted on YouTube). VERY tough to translate Murakami and his atmospheric writing to film.