The Second Bakery Attack
"The Second Bakery Attack" | |
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Short story by Haruki Murakami | |
Original title | パン屋再襲撃 (Pan'ya Saishūgeki) |
Translator | Jay Rubin |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Publication | |
Published in | Marie Claire Japan |
Publication type | Periodical |
Media type | Print (Magazine) |
Publication date | August 1985 |
Published in English | January 1992 (Playboy) |
"The Second Bakery Attack" (Japanese: パン屋再襲撃, Hepburn: Pan'ya Saishūgeki) is a short story by Haruki Murakami, originally published in the August 1985 issue of Marie Claire Japan. It is a sequel to Murakami's short story "Bakery Attack", which was published in 1981. In 1986, "The Second Bakery Attack" was included in a short story collection of the same name. The story was later translated into English by Jay Rubin and published in the January 1992 issue of Playboy. In 1993, Rubin's translation was included in the collection The Elephant Vanishes.
Plot
A recently married couple in their late twenties lie in bed, famished; they have little in their refrigerator: a six-pack of beer and some cookies. After drinking and eating all of it, the man recounts to his wife a time he and his friend "robbed" a bakery ten years ago. The two intended to take all the bread they could from a bakery by force. The man who ran the bakery offers a counterproposal before the two men can act: since he is a
They drive around Tokyo looking for a bakery but all of them are closed; they "compromise" to "rob" a McDonald's instead. With ski-masks and a Remington automatic shotgun, they enter the restaurant and demand thirty Big Macs. The three employees working there fulfill the peculiar request. The couple then leave the restaurant and drive until they find an empty parking lot; they then eat four to six Big Macs each until they are full. The man feels calm after this experience.
Publication
"The Second Bakery Attack" was originally published in the August 1985 issue of
In 1991, the story was translated into English by Jay Rubin and published in the January 1992 issue of Playboy. Its cover page illustration was illustrated by Japanese artist Kinuko Y. Craft.[1] It was the first time Murakami's work was translated by Rubin, who would later go on to translate many of Murakami's novels and stories.[7][8] Rubin's English translation would later be included in Murakami's 1993 short story collection The Elephant Vanishes.[9]
Adaptations
In 1998, the German film The Polar Bear (German: Der Eisbär), written and directed by Granz Henman and Til Schweiger, used elements of "The Second Bakery Attack" in three intersecting story lines. "The Second Bakery Attack" also became a basis for a segment of the South Korean omnibus film Acoustic (2010).[10]
A 1998 short film adaptation was directed by Wolf Baschung and featured author/actress Galaxy Craze.[11]
2010 short film
"The Second Bakery Attack" was adapted as The Second Bakery Attack, a 2010 Mexican-American short film directed by
- Cast
- Kirsten Dunst as Nat
- Brian Geraghty as Dan
- Lucas Akoskin as Demitrio
- Sherry Gordon as Cherry
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- ISBN 978-986-03-2475-4.
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- London Korean Film Festival. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
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"The Second Bakery Attack". Internet Movie Database. 2010. Archivedfrom the original on 25 January 2013. Retrieved 2 March 2013.
- ^ Fischer, Russ (29 November 2010). "First Look: Kirsten Dunst In Carlos Cuarón's 'The Second Bakery Attack'". /Film. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ Dang, Simon (28 November 2010). "First Look: Kirsten Dunst & Brian Geraghty In Carlos Cuaron's 'The Second Bakery Attack'". IndieWire. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ "The Second Bakery Attack". Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ Sánchez, Clara (9 October 2009). "Carlos Cuarón receives Premio Tequila Cuervo". Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ "Short Shorts film festival puts spotlight on Asia". The Independent. 20 October 2010. Archived from the original on 18 June 2022. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
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