Murakami Haruki Short Story Collection ‘After the Quake’ Sets Film Adaptation, Sales at Bitters End (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief ‘After the Quake,’ a film adaptation of a Murakami Haruki story collection, has been picked up by Japan’s Bitters End for international rights sales.
Directed by Inoue Tsuyoshi (“Amachan”) and produced by “Drive My Car” producer Yamamoto Teruhisa, the film is based on four of the six short stories in Murakami’s 2000 book of the same title.
The stories explore the complex aftermath of Japan’s earthquakes and other global crises. The six short stories in the book were written in response to the Kobe earthquake and each one touches tangentially on the disaster.
All were written in the third person and set in the narrow time period between the Feb. 1995 Kobe quake and the shocking poison gas attacks on the Tokyo metro system the following month.
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