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Norwegian Wood
Toru recalls his life in the 1960s, when his friend Kizuki killed himself and he grew close to Naoko, Kizuki's girlfriend, and another woman, the outgoing, lively Midori.
2010 · Directed by Trần Anh Hùng · 134 min · Drama · Romance · 20 frames
Crew
- Screenplay: Trần Anh Hùng
- Cinematography: Mark Lee Ping-Bing, Jun Fukumoto
- Music: Jonny Greenwood
- Production design: Norifumi Ataka, Trần Nữ Yên Khê
- Produced by: Naoki Kusumoto, Satoshi Fukushima, Joe Ikeda, Kaoru Matsuzaki
Cast
- Kenichi Matsuyama as Toru Watanabe
- Rinko Kikuchi as Naoko
- Kiko Mizuhara as Midori
- Reika Kirishima as Reiko Ishida
- Eriko Hatsune as Hatsumi
- Tetsuji Tamayama as Nagasawa
- Tokio Emoto as Storm Trooper
- Kengo Kora as Kizuki
- Takao Handa as Midori's Father
- Shigesato Itoi as Professor
Production
- Country: Japan, Netherlands
- Language: Japanese
- Studios: Fuji Television Network, Sankei Shimbun, Sumitomo Corporation, dentsu
- Box office: $17,636,261
- Themes: suicide, based on novel or book, sanitarium, young man, reading, kyoto, japan, 1960s
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