Unconfirmed reports of a ‘Wind-up Bird Chronicle’ film!
Foreign Dispatches and 3yen are reporting that there may be a film adaptation of The Wind Up Bird Chronicle in the works:
“The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle” (Nejimaki-dori Kuronikuru) is going into production here in Japan as some sort of bilingual production. I spotted a job announcement for the film today. Although “no reposting is permitted,” tokyo craigslist (Thu, 29 Jun 01:08 JST) has a job listing for a Director’s Assistantfor the adaptation the Murakami novel, “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle” (ねじまき鳥クロニクル).
I would really like to see my favorite Murakami novel adapted into a film…but craigslist? What kind of major film production is going to get its staff by posting on craigslist?
edit: It turns out it is actually a ‘multi-media theatrical adaptation’of Wind-up Bird Chronicle. Terrible..
