Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama, Romance
Release Year: 2010
Country: Japan
Runtime:
Rating: 6.5 (2)
Languages: Japanese
Director: Anh Hung Tran
Sound: Dolby Digital
Taglines:
Writing by: Haruki Murakami – (based upon the novel)
Anh Hung Tran – (screenplay)
Produced by: Satoshi Fukushima – co-producer
Joe Ikeda – associate producer
Chihiro Kameyama – executive producer
Kaoru Matsuzaki – associate producer
Mioko Ogawa – assistant producer
Shinji Ogawa – producer
Keizo Shukuzaki – line producer
Masao Teshima – executive producer
Cast: Rinko Kikuchi – Naoko
Ken'ichi Matsuyama – Toru Watanabe
Kiko Mizuhara – Midori
Tetsuji Tamayama – Nagasawa
Kengo Kôra – Kizuki
Eriko Hatsune – Hatsumi
Reika Kirishima – Reiko Ishida
Shigesato Itoi – Theatre professor
Tokio Emoto – Storm Trooper
Haruomi Hosono – Record shop owner
Takao Handa – Midori' father
Music: Jonny Greenwood
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Plot Outline:
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.
Plot: Upon hearing the song "Norwegian Wood," Toru (Matsuyama) remembers back to his life in the 1960s, when his friend Kizuki killed himself and he grew close to Naoko, Kizuki's girlfriend. As the two try, in very different ways, to contend with their grief, Toru forms a bond with another woman, Midori.
