Kafka on the Shore: A Documentary | Full Movie | Haruki Murakami Art

In 2002, Haruki Murakami has released "Kafka on the Shore", his most famous book. In this film, which is celebrating 20 years of Kafka on the Shore, we will explore the story, the characters, the author and the phenomenon. It is more a tribute than an analysis and I hope you will enjoy it.
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I want to thank my great voice actors for their brilliant work in depicting Kafka Tamura, Satoru Nakata, Miss Saeki & Crow. You did a phenomenal job!
Special Thanks to @agmacdonald who I had the pleasure to do an interview with.
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The music in this film has been composed by Scott Buckley:
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Welcome to Haruki Murakami Art. I would like to invite you into a magnificent world, created by one of the most inspiring authors of our time: Haruki Murakami. Together we will discover his works, characters, illusions and inspired artworks. Based on my Instagram page of the same name, we will now try to put his works on screen.
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[Beanzybeez]

Kafka on the shore was the fist book I read by Murakami. It introduced me to a whole new level of books. I used to read mainly fantasy or YA, but ever since I found out about Murakami, I have been reading all his books as well as more adult fiction. He's the beast at creating surrealistic worlds and his stories make you think at a deeper level. They don't just trap you in, but make you get lost in each of the characters' world. Murakami's books are masterpieces. Btw this documentary is so amazing, very professionally made and the narration is so soothing and relaxing. I loved it!. Greetings from Mexico

[ThomasKindle-cljx]

Just opened an account to write this comment. I didn't expect the characters to take a role in this film so I was totally blown away when Kafka & Crow entered the scene. It totally captered the dreamy Murakami vibe and I felt like I was finally watching the movie I have been waiting for for a long time. The snippets with Nakata and Miss Saeki had a class of its own. Thank you very much for this magical piece of art.

[henryfeebee]

I was absorbed to watch this video. This book is special for me, I can imagine book's scape and I was in tears. Thank you for sharing!

[JG-ggwk]

Don't know how I got here, but I'm so glad I found this. Beautifully shot and presented. I've found something new to read and discover. Thank you

[oharadenny]

Salih, for me this excellent video has helped to pull together some of the Kafka story. The Spirit Lives are the things of dreams and memories and wishes. They can drift around inside the Limbo, they may meet other Spirits along the way, and then we come out in a whole new place with more understanding. Thanks for your work.

[antoniocavalcante]

A wonderful documentary. It made me want to read this novel. Thank you.

[clazzi]

What a magnificent documentary. The voice actors were spot on. The interview was very interesting, too. I think I'm going to read his book as well. Thank you for this wonderful piece of art, dear Salih.

[aya]

Drifting is the state in which I listened to this master piece

[cer]

Beautifully done. I’m deeply moved, not only by what you have done, but also by the amount of work and thought you have put into this. Thank you very much!
It feels strange to discover that something you thought belonged to you alone, that only you can understand it the way it must be understood, is suddenly placed in front of you as something that many love just as much and in which many can lose themselves just as you can. Now I am no longer alone, and the loss of specialness is more than outweighed by the happiness that others feel as I do.

[nievessalazar]

Thanks for such an interesting and moving documentary film. Very interesting. Love it!❤

[Aight]

I cannot stop thinking about this book. It left me sad and nostalgic about something i don't have... Of course I have my pain my past my unresolved answers as every human being. I could relate with both Miss Saeki and Kafka... But to be honest i could relate with Hoshino and also Nakata. With Oshima's depth of thought... It's like each character is a split of consciousness... Just like the white beam in Nakata's mouth at the end of the book. But it left me sad and with a half shadow... Human beings are so complicated yet so simple and easily brokenhearted... We look for something eternally and that something will never get to us, so you keep on living, hoping for one day to meet that person, to complete that missing piece of puzzle, to understand why you ended up the way you are in this moment in time. Point is you don't need to explain this book. This book is like the wind on dunes on sand. It keeps blowing and moving those grains to indefinite directions... Because life is like that, it's unpredictable and you have to follow that path, confused and lost until you, yourself, try to make the best out of it. Sometimes it works, other times it doesn't and when your life culminates, you can finally rest and your memories will fade or can be put in a room somewhere no one needs to know.

[maxback]

Very good book!! I just finished reading it and I came across it just in time when I was beginning a new chapter in my life.

[arackofhats]

This is an incredible doc, very well done and an excellent overview of this masterpiece very well done.

[radiantchristina]

Amazing. Well done! 💕 watching this for the second time.

[tanvigupta]

Thank you for this Documentary! It was indeed Amazing😍😍♥️🫶✨

[kiwi_k]

i just finished the book yesterday and to be honest i do not think i understood the book fully but it touched me... the idea of metaphors and life, also the emotions. it was a really good read

[mvka]

«Listen up—there’s no war that will end all wars, ’ Crow tells me. ‘War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded flesh. War is a perfect, self-contained being. You need to know that.»
I started reading this book a long time ago, but I put it down to come back to it at the right times. They came for me in the dark evenings of the blackout that has been going on in Ukraine since October due to the war started by Russia. Earlier, in relatively peaceful times (relatively, because back in 2014 Russia invaded the territory of Ukraine and keeps its troops there), I was not interested in historical flashbacks, but now they resonate with me. Apparently, Murakami, describing the wars of the past, did not even imagine that in 20 years something so bloody would break out in the very heart of Europe. While reading this book, I didn't try to find answers to any questions, although «Kafka on the shore» made me think about the fate — my own, humanity's...
It is so unusual to watch something invisible become visible; emerges to the surface to lead me further by the hand. If there hadn't been a war, a blackout, I might never have finished reading «Kafka on the shore». And if I had read it earlier, I might never have seen this documentary.

[quad]

Sometimes I want a Kafka On The Shore movie, but sometimes I think it would be less of a blessing than a curse.

[geoffreyrothwell]

I don’t really want to pop anyone’s bubble of love with this documentary, but it does not do justice to this surrealist novel. For example, Ms Seaki is not the owner of the library, which is at least a century older than the one in this film. Her lost boyfriend family’s owns the library. The library here was not built when the painting of Kafka on the shore near the library. They don’t have an encounter on the beach, Ms Seaki comes to his room and invites him to see where the painting was painted, then they return to his room and make love. Nakata never claims that he can make anything rain from the sky, things just rain from the sky. I am currently reading the novel for the third time in English and the first time in French. While there are many analyses available of this novel on YouTube, in my opinion, the most insightful is “Kafka on the Shore: In a Subliminal Colony, A Literary Analysis, ” that puts the novel and author into historical and Japanese literary perspective. This book is best thought of as a dream, a sweet dream. Dream on…

[Pythagoras]

the Kafka in this vid seems much older then the 15 year old boy in the novel