Japanese Literature, “After the quake” by Haruki Murakami and it was then filmed in 2007. In the book: Noir Urbanisms: Dystopic Images of the Modern City, chapter 5, “Oh No, There goes Tokyo: Recreational Apocalypse and the city in postwar Japanese Popular Culture”, the writer Tsutsui describes Japanese films and anime as “tragic”, “apocalyptic”, “ironic”, “speculative”, while still captivating our audiences in a sense of its thoroughness. Among these monster and imaginative films, Tokyo is the city of imagery which has been destroyed and annihilated by means of human weapons, natural disasters, alien mutation or even unknown supernatural powers. All
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