All the books by Haruki Murakami adapted to cinema and television, ranked

Adapted from a short story in Murakami Haruki’s Men Without Women, a director’s wife was a playwright, but she died two years ago. When the director is invited to direct a play at a festival in Hiroshima he finds his chauffeur to be a stoic woman. The two share many rides and as gradually communication is initiated secrets and confessions are exchanged.

An aspiring young novelist, Lee Jong-su performs odd jobs in Paju. Jong-su initially does not remember her, but Shin Hae-mi tells him she had plastic surgery. Jong-su passes by Hae-mi’s apartment, where he receives instructions about feeding the cat. Later, they have sex in Hae-mi’s apartment.

A lost cat, a giant talkative frog, and a tsunami help an unambitious bank employee, his frustrated wife, and a schizophrenic accountant to save Tokyo from an earthquake and find a meaning to their lives.

Toru Watanabe is a quiet and serious young man in 1960s Tokyo whose personal life is in tumult, having lost his best friend Kizuki after he inexplicably commits suicide. Seeking an escape, Toru enters a university in Tokyo. By chance, during a walk in a park, Toru meets Kizuki’s ex-girlfriend Naoko, and they grow close. Naoko continues to be devastated by the loss of Kizuki and spirals into a deep depression.

Nat and Dan are recently married but they just had their first fight. An overwhelming hunger keeps them both awake one night. What can they do to quell their hunger and save their marriage? Short based on the short story by Haruki Murakami, starring Kirsten Dunst and Brian Geraghty.

In Korea Town Los Angeles, a young man, Kengo, believes he’s the son of God – that’s what his mother told him since he was a young boy. He spends his days working his dead-end job and figuring out his complex feelings for his girlfriend until, one day, he sees a one-eared man who could be his father.