Through memories, dreams and fantasies, Kyoko, Komura and Katagiri, influenced by their visions of earthquakes-which are manifested as evil willow trees, giant earthworms, secret vows, mysterious boxes and a dark, endless corridor-attempt to rediscover their true selves. His colleague Katagiri, a simple debt collector by profession and an awkward loner in life, returns home one evening to find a two-metre-tall frog asking for his help to save Tokyo from an imminent earthquake. Her helpless husband Komura takes a week’s leave from work and heads north to deliver a box and its unknown contents to two young women. (In fact, the success of the short story prompted him to expand it into that epic novel. Kyoko suddenly leaves her husband after spending five days in a row glued to unfolding earthquake footage on TV. From there I downed The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Norwegian Wood the two tentpoles of his fiction and worked my way in and out of. The Elephant Vanishes is a collection of short stories that Murakami published between 19 and it begins with The Wind-up Bird and Tuesday’s Women, which is rather similar to the start of the novel, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. Tokyo, a few days after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. If you’re wondering how Földes took a handful of short stories and turned them into a cogent film, here’s the synopsis:
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