... although I'm sure that's what you're trying to do.

I'd say that Murakami is probably closest to magical realism, which is, as Terry Pratchett says, "a weasel word meaning 'fantasy written by someone I went to university with.'" Despite unicorns and suchlike, it certainly isn't genre fantasy, which is a useful and somewhat dismissive category us pretentious academics like to throw around while pontificating about cultural studies :>.