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Never Let Me Go (2010 film) Never Let Me Go is a 2010 British dystopian romantic drama film based on Kazuo Ishiguro's 2005 novel of the same name. The film was directed by Mark Romanek from a screenplay by Alex Garland. "Never Let Me Go" is set in an alternative history and centres on Kathy, Ruth and Tommy portrayed by Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley and Andrew Garfield respectively, who become entangled in a love triangle. Principal photography began in April 2009 and lasted several weeks. The movie was filmed at various locations, including Andrew Melville Hall. "Never Let Me Go" was produced by DNA Films and Film4 on a US$15 million budget.
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Never Let Me Go (novel) Never Let Me Go is a 2005 dystopian science fiction novel by Japanese-born British author Kazuo Ishiguro. It was shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize (an award Ishiguro had previously won in 1989 for "The Remains of the Day"), for the 2006 Arthur C. Clarke Award and for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award. "Time" magazine named it the best novel of 2005 and included the novel in its "TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005". It also received an ALA Alex Award in 2006. A film adaptation directed by Mark Romanek was released in 2010; a Japanese television drama aired in 2016.
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Thousand Cranes Thousand Cranes (千羽鶴 , Senbazuru ) is a 1952 novel by Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata. The novel is divided into five episodes: "Thousand Cranes", "A Grove in the Evening Sun", "Figured Shino", "Her Mother's Lipstick" and "Double Star".
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An Artist of the Floating World An Artist of the Floating World (1986) is a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. It is set in post-World War II Japan and is narrated by Masuji Ono, an ageing painter, who looks back on his life and how he has lived it. He notices how his once great reputation has faltered since the war and how attitudes towards him and his paintings have changed. The chief conflict deals with Ono's need to accept responsibility for his past actions. The novel also deals with the role of people in a rapidly changing environment.
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Coin Locker Babies Coin Locker Babies (コインロッカー・ベイビーズ , Koinrokkā Beibīzu ) , 1980, is a novel by Ryu Murakami about coin-operated-locker babies, translated into English by Stephen Snyder. The translation was published in 1995 by Kodansha (講談社 Kōdansha) International Ltd and republished in 2013 by Pushkin Press. A Bildungsroman novel, "Coin Locker Babies" is known for transcending genres, containing elements of social commentary, surrealism, dark comedy, philosophy, noir and horror in a cyberpunk setting.
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Alexander O. Smith Alexander O. Smith (born February 8, 1973) is a professional English–Japanese translator and author. While his output covers many areas such as adaptation of Japanese novels, manga, song lyrics, anime scripts, and various academic works, he is best known for his software localizations of Japanese video games including "Vagrant Story", "", and "Final Fantasy XII". He currently resides in Kamakura, Japan, where he operates his own contract localization business, Kajiya Productions, and is co-founder of a translation and publishing company, Bento Books.
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Miyuki Miyabe Miyuki Miyabe (宮部 みゆき "Miyabe Miyuki", born December 23, 1960) is a popular contemporary Japanese author active in a number of genres that include science fiction, mystery fiction, historical fiction, social commentary, and young adult literature. Her most famous novels in the English-speaking world are "Crossfire" (クロスファイア), published in 1998, and "Kasha" (火車), translated by Alfred Birnbaum as "All She Was Worth", published in 1999. Among anime fans, her fantasy novel "Brave Story" is well regarded; it has notably been adapted into an animated film, an "alternate retelling" manga series, and a series of video games.
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Osamu Dazai Osamu Dazai (太宰 治 , Dazai Osamu , June 19, 1909 – June 13, 1948) was a Japanese author who is considered one of the foremost fiction writers of 20th-century Japan. A number of his most popular works, such as "The Setting Sun" ("Shayō") and "No Longer Human" ("Ningen Shikkaku"), are considered modern-day classics in Japan. With a semi-autobiographical style and transparency into his personal life, Dazai’s stories have intrigued the minds of many readers. His books also bring about awareness to a number of important topics such as human nature, mental illness, social relationships, and postwar Japan.
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Blood and Bones Blood and Bones (血と骨 , Chi to Hone ) is a Japanese film, directed by Yōichi Sai and starring Takeshi Kitano. It is based on the semi-autobiographical novel "Chi to Hone" by Zainichi Korean author Yan Sogiru (Yang Seok-il).
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Teito Monogatari Teito Monogatari (帝都物語 , lit., "The Tale of the Imperial Capital" ) is an epic historical dark fantasy/science fiction work; the debut novel of natural history researcher and polymath Hiroshi Aramata. It began circulation in a literary magazine owned by Kadokawa Shoten in 1983, and was published in 10 volumes over the course of 1985–1987. The novel is a romanticized retelling of the 20th-century history of Tokyo from an occultist perspective.
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Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, originally released as Toki o Kakeru Shōjo (時をかける少女 , lit. "The Girl Who Runs Through Time") , is a 2010 Japanese science fiction film directed by Masaaki Taniguchi and written by Tomoe Kanno. It is the fourth film based on the novel "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" and is a sequel to the original 1983 film adaptation. The film stars Riisa Naka as the protagonist Akari Yoshiyama, daughter of the original story's protagonist Kazuko Yoshiyama. Riisa Naka also voiced the protagonist Makoto Konno in the 2006 anime adaptation, which followed a different story.
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Be With You (film) Be With You (いま、会いにゆきます , Ima, Ai ni Yukimasu ) , is a 2004 Japanese drama film based on a Japanese novel of the same name written by Takuji Ichikawa. The film was adapted from the novel by Yoshikazu Okada, and it was directed by Nobuhiro Doi. It stars actress Yūko Takeuchi as Mio Aio and actor Shido Nakamura as Takumi Aio.
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Fugo Keiji Fugō Keiji (富豪刑事) is a 2005 Japanese drama broadcast by TV Asahi based on a novel by Tsutsui Yasutaka.
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The Kappa Child The Kappa Child is a novel by Hiromi Goto, published in 2001. Goto's novel focuses on a Japanese-Canadian woman and her family. The narrator believes herself to have immaculately conceived a kappa (folklore).
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Glass Geishas Glass Geishas is a 2012 thriller novel by English author Susanna Quinn and was released on June 1, 2012 by Hodder & Stoughton. The book primarily focuses on a young English girl that becomes part of the Japanese hostess and sex industry. Of the novel, Quinn stated that she used her experiences as a hostess in Japan as inspiration for the book.
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Spring Snow (film) Spring Snow (春の雪 , Haru no Yuki ) is a 2005 film adaptation of Yukio Mishima's novel of the same name, directed by Isao Yukisada.
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Doctor Zhivago (film) Doctor Zhivago (Italian: "Il dottor Zivago") is a 1965 British-Italian epic romantic drama film directed by David Lean. It is set in Russia between the years prior to World War I and the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922, and is based on the Boris Pasternak novel of the same name. While immensely popular in the West, the book was banned in the Soviet Union for decades. For this reason, the film could not be made in the Soviet Union and was instead filmed mostly in Spain.
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Toh EnJoe Toh EnJoe (Japanese: 円城 塔 , Hepburn: Enjō Tō , pen name) (born September 15, 1972) is a Japanese author. His works are usually literary fiction, speculative fiction or science fiction.
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Shikasta Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta (often shortened to Shikasta) is a 1979 science fiction novel by Doris Lessing, and is the first book in her five-book "Canopus in Argos" series. It was first published in the United States in October 1979 by Alfred A. Knopf, and in the United Kingdom in November 1979 by Jonathan Cape. Shikasta is also the name of the fictional planet featured in the novel.
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Fever Pitch Fever Pitch: A Fan's Life is a 1992 autobiographical essay by British author Nick Hornby. The book is the basis for two films: "Fever Pitch" (1997, UK) and "Fever Pitch" (2005, U.S.). The first edition was subtitled "A Fan's Life", but later paperback editions were not.
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Chaos (2000 film) Chaos (カオス , Kaosu ) is a 2000 Japanese mystery-thriller film, directed by Hideo Nakata. It stars Miki Nakatani and Masato Hagiwara. It is based on Shōgo Utano's novel "Sarawaretai Onna" (さらわれたい女 , lit. "The Woman Who Wants To Be Kidnapped" ) .
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Go (Kaneshiro novel) GO is a novel written by Kazuki Kaneshiro and published in 2000 by Kodansha. "GO" received a Naoki Prize, an award of high praise in Japan. A film adaptation was released in 2001 that won numerous awards in Japan.