Murakami's primary concern is metaphysical, the relationship between planes. The subject is not just a subject, but they open up internally to an entire cosmology, related to their location. Location/Person are the same topic in text. Traveling between subjects, relationships have a metaphysics unique to their own.
Water, flowing, ties into the broadly reaching theme of emptiness - a space where multiple subjects meet and move against each other, violence.
Murakami's problem is that he writes the same novel over and over. Wind Up Bird is equal to Kafka on the Shore as "read one and you've read them all."
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