Japanese Magical Realism

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    • By: Mai Mochizuki
    • Narrated by: Sadao Ueda, Tomoko Komura, Yuriri Naka
    • Series: The Full Moon Coffee Shop
    • Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 29-08-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Based on the Japanese myth of cats returning favours to humans who are kind to them, "The Full Moon Coffee Shop" is the name of a peculiar cake cafe that is run by talking cats, which has no fixed location and instead materialises unpredictably on the night of a full moon....

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    • By: Hiromi Kawakami
    • Narrated by: Susan Momoko-Hingley
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 20-06-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Having married her childhood sweetheart, Riko now finds herself trapped in a relationship that has been soured by infidelity. One day, by chance, she runs into her old friend Mr. Takaoka, who offers friendship, love, and an unusual escape: he teaches her the trick of living inside her dreams.

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    • A Novel
    • By: Tomihiko Morimi
    • Narrated by: Andrew Grace
    • Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • An unfulfilled college student hurtles through four parallel realities to explore the what-might've-been and the what-should-never-be in this Groundhog Day meets The Midnight Library–esque novel from one of Japan’s most popular authors.

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    • By: Makoto Shinkai, Taylor Engel - translator
    • Narrated by: Brandon Engman, Ashley Boettcher
    • Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 15-10-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Longing to escape his island home, a boy named Hodaka runs away during his first summer of high school to find a new life in Tokyo. As rain falls for days on end and Hodaka struggles to adjust, he meets a girl named Hina who holds a mysterious power.

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    • By: Mizuki Tsujimura
    • Narrated by: Yuki Tejima
    • Length: Not Yet Known
    • Release date: 03-04-2025
    • Language: English
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    • When Hirase, a young woman from Tokyo, arranges an appointment with the Go-Between, she doesn't expect a teenager to show up. Dressed preppy-style in a duffel coat and carrying a notebook, he invites the dead back into the real world....

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    • By: Grace James
    • Narrated by: Marina Viñals
    • Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-2022
    • Language: Spanish
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    • Una preciosa colección de cuentos de realismo mágico venidos del Japón tradicional, zen e intimista....

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    • By: Karen Tei Yamashita
    • Narrated by: Bernardo De Paula
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-2022
    • Language: English
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    • This freewheeling black comedy features a bizarre cast of characters, including a Japanese man with a ball floating six inches in front of his head, an American CEO with three arms, and a Brazilian peasant who discovers the art of healing by tickling one’s earlobe with a feather....

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