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TECHNICAL INFORMATION 

Japan, 2010, 133 minutes, 35mm, DCP/HDCAM, 16:9, Colour, Japanese

CREDITS 


Director
TRAN Anh Hung
Written by
TRAN Anh Hung
Based on the Novel by
Haruki MURAKAMI
"Norwegian Wood" Published by Kodansha

Executive Producers
Masao TESHIMA, Chihiro Kameyama

Producer
Shinji OGAWA
Associate Producers
Kaoru MATSUZAKI, Joe IKEDA

Co-Executive Producers
Michael J. WERNER, Wouter BARENDRECHT

Music Score by
Jonny GREENWOOD
Director of Photography
Mark LEE Ping Bin
Production Designer/Costume Designer
Yên Khê LUGUERN
Production Designer
Fuminori ATAKA
Lighting Director
Yuki NAKAMURA
Sound Mixer
Kazuharu URATA
Editor
Mario BATTISTEL
Production Companies
Asmik Ace Entertainment, Fuji Television



CAST 


Kenichi MATSUYAMA
Watanabe
Rinko KIKUCHI
Naoko
Kiko MIZUHARA
Midori
Reika KIRISHIMA
Reiko Ishida
Kengo KORA
Kizuki
Eriko HATSUNE
Hatsumi
Tetsuji TAMAYAMA
Nagasawa


SYNOPSIS 

Published in 1987 and since translated into 33 languages, NORWEGIAN WOOD is a story of loss and heartbreak in a time of global instability. Haruki Murakami’s bestselling novel is brought to the screen by Tran Anh Hung (Golden Lion winner for CYCLO and Academy Award nominee for THE SCENT OF GREEN PAPAYA) and features Japanese rising star Kenichi Matsuyama (DEATH NOTE, DETROIT METAL CITY) and Oscar nominee Rinko Kikuchi (BABEL) alongside newcomer Kiko Mizuhara.
Tokyo, the late 1960s…Students around the world are uniting to overthrow the establishment and Toru Watanabe’s personal life is similarly in tumult. At heart, he is deeply devoted to his first love, Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman. But their complex bond has been forged by the tragic death of their best friend years before. Watanabe lives with the influence of death everywhere. That is, until Midori, a girl who is everything that Naoko is not – outgoing, vivacious, supremely self-confident – marches into his life and Watanabe must choose between his past and his future.


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