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Arts series edited and presented by Alan Yentob.

The biggest names from the world of art, film, music, literature and dance. Alan Yentob gets close up with those shaping today's cultural world.

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Imagine; Summer 2008; A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami

Alan Yentob

imagine...: Summer 2008: A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami

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A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami

24/06/2008

Summer 2008

BBC One - imagine..., Summer 2008, A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami

Alan Yentob explores the mysterious world of Japanese writer Haruki Murakami.

Alan Yentob explores the mysterious, offbeat, sexually-charged world of Japan's most popular and internationally acclaimed writer, Haruki Murakami.

Arts and culture programme. Alan Yentob explores the mysterious, offbeat, sexually-charged world of Japan's most popular and internationally acclaimed writer, Haruki Murakami. Murakami is incomparable; a literary novelist, he writes cool, witty, and often surreal bestsellers. The notoriously enigmatic and media shy author always shuns radio and television, but agreed to a rare and frank off-camera interview for this programme.

In this impressionistic film Alan Yentob travels in Japan through the strange, labyrinthine landscape of Murakami's fiction on a jazz-fuelled 'wild sheep chase' of a journey. In Tokyo and Kobe he delves into the social and political background of Murakami's work and encounters his fans, critics, translators ... and a talking cat.

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