Tokyo Night Stories menyajikan sisi-sisi Ryu Murakami yang mungkin tidak diharapkan oleh para penggemar beratnya. Di dalam buku ini ia menceritakan kisah-kisah yang menarik, aneh, seru, dan agak mengganggu. Kita akan mengikuti tokoh-tokoh yang hidup dan berkeliaran di Tokyo yang mengalami dekadensi pada tahun delapan puluhan. Ryu Murakami dengan jeli bercerita perihal gadis-gadis Tokyo, seks, obat-obatan terlarang, musik, bisbol, film, hingga kehidupan seorang ayah yang mempertanyakan orientasi seksualnya.
Author
Ryū Murakami (村上 龍) is a Japanese novelist and filmmaker. He is not related to Haruki Murakami or Takashi Murakami. Murakami's first work, the short novel Almost Transparent Blue, written while he was still a student, deals with promiscuity and drug use among disaffected Japanese youth. Critically acclaimed as a new style of literature, it won the newcomer's literature prize in 1976 despite some observers decrying it as decadent. Later the same year, Blue won the Akutagawa Prize, going on to become a best seller. In 1980, Murakami published the much longer novel Coin Locker Babies, again to critical acclaim. Takashi Miike's feature film Audition (1999) was based on one of his novels. Murakami reportedly liked it so much he gave Miike his blessing to adapt Coin Locker Babies. The screen play was worked on by director Jordan Galland. However, Miike could not raise funding for the project. An adaptation directed by Michele Civetta is currently in production. Murakami has played drums for a rock group called Coelacanth and hosted a TV talk show.
