Anh Hung Tran, Norwegian Wood

The Paris-based, Vietnamese-born filmmaker of The Scent of Green Papaya adapts one of Haruki Murakami’s most famous novels, a melancholy tale of a Japanese youth whose first great love is mentally ill. The multilingual Tran discusses filming with his Japanese cast, knowing no Japanese, the difficulty in financing and the irresistible force that led them to make this movie.

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