Incoming Resources
- Bullet train, a novel, Kotaro Isaka ; translated from the Japanese by Sam Malissa
- Blind willow, sleeping woman, twenty-four stories, by Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Jay Rubin
- Grave of the fireflies, Bandai presents ; Emotion ; Shinchosha ; producer, Toru Hara ; written and directed by Isao Takahata ; English language version producer, Stephanie Shalofsky ; translation, Neil Nadelman
- Silence, Shūsaku Endō ; translated from the Japanese by William Johnston ; with a foreword by Martin Scorsese
- Spring snow, the sea of fertility, a cycle of four novels, Yukio Mishima ; translated from the Japanese by Michael Gallagher
- 1Q84, Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel
- The wind-up bird chronicle, Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin
- Nausica? of the Valley of the Wind, Studio Ghibli ; Tokuma Shoten and Hakuhodo present ; original story and screenplay by Hayao Miyazaki ; producer, Isao Takahata ; directed by Hayao Miyazaki
- Kafka on the shore, Haruki Murakami ; translated by Philip Gabriel
- Rhapsody in August, Shochiku presents ; a Kurosawa Production ; presented by Feature Film Enterprise 2 ; producer, Hisao Kurosawa ; written and directed by Akira Kurosawa