Japan applauds Murakami’s Oscar win for “Drive My Car,” with hopes that it would boost his fame
ASEAN – From the streets of Tokyo to the highest levels of government, Japan applauded Drive My Car’s Oscar success, hoping that it would raise the popularity of Haruki Murakami, the perennial Nobel Prize nominee who wrote the narrative that the film was based on. The three-hour drama, directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi and premised on a short story by Murakami, …