Adapting several surrealistic shorts from Iconic author Haruki Murakami, the animated film from Pierre Foldes “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman” is due to be completed in the first half of 2022. A trailer for the production was recently made available and can be viewed below.
Synopsis: A lost cat, a giant talkative frog and a tsunami help a bank employee without ambition, his frustrated wife and a schizophrenic accountant to save Tokyo from an earthquake and find a meaning to their lives.
Haruki Murakami Animated: Trailer for the Upcoming Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
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Adam Symchuk is a Canadian born freelance writer and editor who has been writing for Asian Movie Pulse since 2018. He is currently focused on covering manga, manhwa and light novels having reviewed hundreds of titles in the past two years.
His love of film came from horror and exploitation films from Japan that he devoured in his teens. His love of comics came from falling in love with the works of Shuzo Oshimi, Junji Ito, Hideshi Hino, and Inio Asano but has expanded to a general love of the medium and all its genres.
