There’s some wonderful coverage of the Oslo Murakami Festival here: Murakami Blues. Haruki himself attended, and spoke about various things including how he forms his stories & characters: “I have no plan. That is a main thing. When the story ends, I just know it ends, so I stop the story. The characters just pop [...]
Though the presenter is quite brash, here’s a very good tutorial on “how to play norwegian wood” on the guitar: and, once you tire of listening to his voice, here’s the beautiful original:
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In German, but it doesn’t matter – here’s a very nice CGI interpretation of Haruki’s “Monster”:
Again, people seem to love this short story. Here’s a short testplay animation of ‘… the 100% Perfect Girl’:
This video has really bad sound quality, but it gives you a chance to hear Haruki speak about his work & read from one of his books:
Though totally in Japanese, I still enjoyed watching this Hear the Wind Sing video:
This was never my favourite Murakami story, but people seem to love it. Here’s a short story based on Haruki’s “On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl” story:
Frank Galati, recipient of 9 Joseph Jefferson Awards, discusses Haruki Murakami’s work, themes, and characters: