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Screening: "Norwegian Wood" 菊池凛子主演 映画上映:[ノルウェイの森]

  • Friday, January 27, 2012
  • Laemmle Theaters (Los Angeles, Pasadena, and Encino, CA)

In Theaters, January 27, 2012

Laemmle Music Hall 3
9036 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA 90211

Laemmle Playhouse 7
673 East Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91101

Laemmle Town Center 5
17200 Ventura Blvd #121, Encino, CA 91316


Film Summary
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.


Film is in Japanese with English subtitles.

For show times and tickets, visit Laemmle Theater Website

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