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 That same month, Nick Offerman, Toni Collette, Sasha Lane, Ted Danson and Blythe Danner joined the cast of the film. Keegan DeWitt composed the film's score and all of the original songs, including the title track "Hearts Beat Loud". Principal photography began in August 2017. It was filmed in Red Hook, Brooklyn, at locations including the coffee shop Baked and the bar Sunny's. The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 26, 2018. Prior to, Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions and Gunpowder & Sky acquired international and U.S. distribution rights to the film, respectively. It was