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Haibane Renmei
灰羽連盟
2002 · TV series · 24 min episodes · 1 season
AnimationDramaScience FictionFantasy
A dream of falling from the sky...and then birth. Rakka is born from a large cocoon into the Old Home, greeted by a group of female beings with small wings on their backs and shining halos above their heads. Soon Rakka’s own wings grow, a halo is placed on her head and she is told that she must work in the nearby town of Grie. She soon realizes that the town and the entire world they live in are confined behind the Wall, a tall, impenetrable wall that none except the mysterious Toga are allowed to exit.
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Haibane Renmei.
Darker than Black (the original season 1).
Higurashi (the original version).
There's quite a few directors who credit Murakami as an influence on their works.
Rian Johnson credits HBW+EOW as an influence on Looper.
Wong Kar-wai says he took inspiration from Murakami in Chunking Express.
David Mitchell is clearly influenced by his works (worth reading if you're a Murakami fan). His novel Cloud Atlas got a film adaptation with Tom Hanks and some other big names.
In anime, Satoshi Kon and Makoto Shinkai have said Murakami was a big influence on them. There's also Haibane Renmei which was influenced by HBW+EOW (IMO not worth watching). Probably plenty more anime with similar styles because it's a more suitable medium for the kind of surrealism in Murakami's novels. You might like Psycho-Pass, GITS, Lain which share some of the same elements of Murakami's works.