Norwegian Wood

Director: Tran Anh Hung

2010 / 133min / DCP

A passion project for Tran, this lyric adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s breakthrough novel of sexual awakening, romance, and regret amidst the tumult of late 1960s Japan, concerning a college student (Kenichi Matsuyama) who finds himself, in the wake of a friend’s inexplicable suicide, torn between two very different women, the saturnine Naoko (Rinko Kikuchi), ex-girlfriend of the deceased, and the vivacious Midori (Kiko Mizuhara), Naoko’s opposite in every way. Featuring an original score from Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood, made with a nylon-string guitar and vintage recording equipment, and staggering ‘Scope cinematography by Lee, Norwegian Wood is “a very sensual, sexy movie that virtually gorges on its own erotic melancholy.” —The Guardian

Introduction from Mark Lee Ping-bing on Sunday, September 8th