Men Without Women (2017 short story collection) Men Without Women (2017 short story collection) Men Without Women (女のいない男たち "Onna no inai otokotachi") is a 2014 collection of short stories by Japanese author Haruki Murakami, translated and published in English in 2017. The stories are about men who have lost women in their lives, usually to other men or death. Kafuku, a veteran and widowed actor, hires twenty-four year old driver Misaki Watari to chauffeur him around Tokyo due to his license being revoked due to a D.U.I. and glaucoma. During their trips, Kafuku occasionally tells her about his life as an actor and his late wife's extramarital
Hearts Beat Loud released on June 8, 2018. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 91% based on 138 reviews, and an average rating of 7.2/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Thoroughly sweet, comfortably familiar, and elevated by the chemistry between Nick Offerman and Kiersey Clemons, "Hearts Beat Loud" offers feel-good father-daughter drama." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 65 out of 100, based on 29 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Hearts Beat Loud Hearts Beat Loud is a 2018 American comedy-drama music film directed by Brett Haley, from a screenplay by Haley