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tenel_kaOH MY FRICK, YOU CAN'T MAKE A MOVIE OF COIN LOCKER BABIES AND NOT HAVE IT SET IN JAPAN. HOLY CRAP. ALSO, YOU NEED TO USE YOUNGER ACTORS. AND NOT SEAN LENNON. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, NOT SEAN LENNON. WHAT THE SHIT. GET EFFING GACKT AND HYDE IF YOU HAVE TO.
You cannot ruin one of my favorite books like this, dudes. D:
I need to read this book again.
Coin Locker Babies is a brilliantly inspired coming-of-age tale set in this increasingly amorphous, dark underbelly of modern Japan. Hashi and Kiku, both abandoned at birth by their mother in the coin lockers of a Tokyo train station, are rescued and sent to an orphanage where they are the subjects of an experiment that exposes them to subliminal sound and film. Eventually adopted by a family on a remote Japanese island, the boys are both guided and haunted by those subversive hypnotic impressions--the constant rhythm of a woman's heart beating accompanied by images of animals running across an opening range--as they grow up exploring the lush natural environment of their new home.
Models of rejection and alienation, Hashi and Kiku develop separate ways of coping with their condition. While working as a prostitute in Toxitown, Hashi's otherworldly voice is discovered by an unscrupulous pimp (Mr. D), and he becomes an overnight pop-star sensation. His singing actually induces the audience into a deep trance where the emotions, images, and sensations of their lives play out in languid stream-of-consciousness sequences. Hashi believes he can heal the world with his vocal cords and campy stage productions, which fall somewhere between Ziggy Stardust and Liberace.
Kiku becomes a championship pole vaulter. Outwardly, he's the strong and silent type, but beneath the surface rages the angst of a man hell-bent on destroying Tokyo as revenge for his abandonment. His quest for Datura, a poison eerily echoing the Sarin used in the Tokyo subway gassings, leads him on several adventures, finally to a mysterious government test site in a cave beneath the ocean.
I need to read this book again like mad.
HAHAHAHAHHAHA - This review on amazon:
What do you call a book about abandoned babies in coin lockers, a homicidal pole vaulter, a gay, straight, then gay again Jrocker, a drug called Datura, a filipino gun maker with missing teeth, a model who keeps a crocodile as a pet, discriptive images of blood, images of sex with men and women and prostitutes all around, a "sea" voyage, matricide, murder, weird out psycho antics, and an "end" to end it all? Well, if you guessed Coin Locker Babies then you're cool.
This book is by the same guy who wrote the book, Audition -- which I know some of you have seen the movie. XD That should tell you what the book is like, and in turn what Ryu Murakami's style is like. Heeehehe~ I've read a few books by him, but Coin Locker Babies is easily my favorite.
You cannot ruin one of my favorite books like this, dudes. D:
I need to read this book again.
Coin Locker Babies is a brilliantly inspired coming-of-age tale set in this increasingly amorphous, dark underbelly of modern Japan. Hashi and Kiku, both abandoned at birth by their mother in the coin lockers of a Tokyo train station, are rescued and sent to an orphanage where they are the subjects of an experiment that exposes them to subliminal sound and film. Eventually adopted by a family on a remote Japanese island, the boys are both guided and haunted by those subversive hypnotic impressions--the constant rhythm of a woman's heart beating accompanied by images of animals running across an opening range--as they grow up exploring the lush natural environment of their new home.
Models of rejection and alienation, Hashi and Kiku develop separate ways of coping with their condition. While working as a prostitute in Toxitown, Hashi's otherworldly voice is discovered by an unscrupulous pimp (Mr. D), and he becomes an overnight pop-star sensation. His singing actually induces the audience into a deep trance where the emotions, images, and sensations of their lives play out in languid stream-of-consciousness sequences. Hashi believes he can heal the world with his vocal cords and campy stage productions, which fall somewhere between Ziggy Stardust and Liberace.
Kiku becomes a championship pole vaulter. Outwardly, he's the strong and silent type, but beneath the surface rages the angst of a man hell-bent on destroying Tokyo as revenge for his abandonment. His quest for Datura, a poison eerily echoing the Sarin used in the Tokyo subway gassings, leads him on several adventures, finally to a mysterious government test site in a cave beneath the ocean.
I need to read this book again like mad.
HAHAHAHAHHAHA - This review on amazon:
What do you call a book about abandoned babies in coin lockers, a homicidal pole vaulter, a gay, straight, then gay again Jrocker, a drug called Datura, a filipino gun maker with missing teeth, a model who keeps a crocodile as a pet, discriptive images of blood, images of sex with men and women and prostitutes all around, a "sea" voyage, matricide, murder, weird out psycho antics, and an "end" to end it all? Well, if you guessed Coin Locker Babies then you're cool.
This book is by the same guy who wrote the book, Audition -- which I know some of you have seen the movie. XD That should tell you what the book is like, and in turn what Ryu Murakami's style is like. Heeehehe~ I've read a few books by him, but Coin Locker Babies is easily my favorite.
