Japanese

When an unemployed former math major wakes up one day, he wonders if he’s somehow ended up on the red planet. His only leads are cryptic instructions beamed to a portable device. Has the game begun?

Tokyo prostitutes Yuriko and Kazue have been brutally murdered. Their stories are coolly mediated by Yuriko’s older sister.

An excellent suspense-horror that centres around the curse unleashed by a single videotape when watched.

Manabu Yukawa returns, this time to help out Detective Kusanagi solve the mystery of the poisoned husband.

Lucie Blackman, a 21-year-old tall blonde living in Tokyo during the summer of 2000 disappears. The subsequent winter her body is found buried at the beach, cut into pieces.

A seemingly shy housewife one day strangles her husband. Her friends come to her aid but each with their own intentions.

Palpable tension and genuine investment in the characters, makes The Woman in the Dunes an excellent read.

Having competed in over twenty marathons, with an ultramarathon (62 miles) to his name, Murakami sits down to tell us all what he was thinking.