Accepted Quote by Masashi Kishimoto

I find Japanese books quite baffling when I read them in translation. It's only with Haruki Murakami that I find Japanse fiction that I…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I've been influenced by my travels across India and the globe.

— Gauri Khan

I have always been a huge fan of Japanese culture, having grown up on Manga comics, their movies and food.

— Kunal Kapoor

My friend, Dennis Mathis, was reading Eastern European and Japanese experimental writers, and I brought the Latin American writers to his attention, so we…

— Sandra Cisneros

But then foreign critics right away made sweeping comparisons to haiku, noh theater, and directors like Ozu, as if the movie were somehow representative…

— Hirokazu Koreeda

I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.

— Ted Demme

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

— Haruki Murakami

I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British and my future was in Britain. And it would also make…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I'm just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.

— Grimes

The more foreign to me, to my existence, to your core existence, the more foreign the foreign language, it's really moving to me to…

— Nathan Englander

When I worked as an editor, I read new novels being published in India every few days. They excited me tremendously for the first…

— Karan Mahajan