The bestselling writer, known as Japan’s enfant terrible, explored the dark underbelly of Japanese society in more than 40 works of subversive fiction including Audition, later made into a landmark indie horror movie Ryu Murakami, the cult Japanese author and film-maker whose subversive, blackly ...
Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/23/ryu-murakami-cult-author-of-coin-locker-babies-and-audition-dies-aged-74)