Japan
2010/digital cinema/133mins
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This delicate and sensual love story set in 1960s Japan and based on the bestselling novel by Haruki Murakami is a stunning visual experience.
As Tokyo erupts into chaos with the student rebellions of the 1960s, two close friends – Watanabe and Naoko – contemplate their future, joined as much by a deep personal loss as they are by their long-term bonds of friendship. Unable to find solace elsewhere they start an affair but it too fails to overcome their strong sense of melancholia. As Noako drifts towards psychological breakdown in a remote healing centre, Watanabe returns to Tokyo where he falls for a fellow student – the free-spirited Midori. French-Vietnamese filmmaker Anh Hung Tran creates a slowly sliding and moody drama about forbidden love, infidelity and loss.
Screenings at Venice, Toronto, Dubai Film Festivals
Nominated for the Golden Lion – Venice Film Festival
“a languorous, visually striking movie about love and loss” Phillip French, The Observer
“your jaw will be grazing the floor, such is the sheer beauty of the cinematography” Sophie Ivan, Film4
“it’s Tran’s fastidious technique that nudges the film into the realms of greatness” David Jenkins, Time Out
ノルウェイの森 NORUWEI NO MORI
Writers Haruki Murakami, Anh Hung Tran Director Anh Hung Tran
Producer Shinji Ogawa Cast Ken’ichi Matsuyama, Rinko Kikuchi, Kiko Mizuhara
Print Source Curious Films
