married it with the company's trademark communal storytelling and demanding physical performance style. The eponymous elephant, for example, was represented at one time by a magnified eye on a video screen, and at another time by four live actors bent over office chairs. This combination of technical wizardry and compelling human narrative received high praise from critics, who also cited the play's humor, realism, and dreamlike motion, a fitting tribute to Murakami's prose. Popular culture The short story "The Elephant Vanishes" inspired a research paper on Asian elephants and their impact on the well-being of the rural poor in India. "The Second Bakery Attack" was used as a scene in The Polar Bear, a German movie starring Til Schweiger, written and co-directed by Granz Henman. "The Second Bakery Attack" also became a basis for an episode of the South Korean film trilogy Acoustic. "Barn Burning" was adapted into the 2018 film Burning by South Korean filmmaker Lee Chang-dong, which premiered to great acclaim at the Cannes film festival of that same year. "The Wind-up Bird and Tuesday's Women" was adapted into a short film in 2004 by Israeli filmmakers Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis, which premiered at several international film festivals as well as had a theatrical release in Israel. References 1993 short story collections Short story collections by Haruki Murakami Alfred A. Knopf books Adaptations of works by Haruki Murakami