6/29/2006

The Japanese novelist, Haruki Murakami is one of the rare delights among modern Japanese writers —most of them tend toward the vague and boring. Today I found out that one Murakami’s funnier novels, “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle”  (Nejimaki-dori Kuronikuru) is going into production here in Japan as some sort of bilingual production. I spotted a job announcement for the film today. Although “no reposting is permitted,” tokyo craigslist (Thu, 29 Jun 01:08 JST) has a job listing for a Director’s Assistant for the adaptation the Murakami novel, “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle” (ねじまき鳥クロニクル). 

Because most snooty Japanese bitch about his novels being too Western, this film might be bilingual or subtitled in English but right now there’s ZERO info about it –it says it’s a “multi-media theatrical adaptation.” For more information about the job, go to tokyo.craigslist.org and dig for the details.