‘Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman’: Murakami Stories Drawn into Animated Magic

By Naoko Kimura / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer
16:16 JST,
September 12, 2024
Six stories by Haruki Murakami have been woven together into an animated film, for the first-ever animated adaption of the writer’s work. The movie, “Mekurayanagi to Nemuru Onna” (“Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman”), is directed by the versatile Pierre Foldes.
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