Last March we reported that Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood would be providing original music for Tran Anh Hung’s Norwegian Wood, based on the Haruki Murakami‘s best-selling novel which borrows the famous Beatles song. Now, we have the first teaser via The Playlist. The drama stars Rinko Kikuchi (Babel) and Kenichi Matsuyama. Check out our first glimpse below.
Synopsis (of the novel): The story’s protagonist and narrator is Toru Watanabe, who looks back on his days as a freshman university student living in Tokyo. Through Toru’s reminiscences we see him develop relationships with two very different women — the beautiful yet emotionally troubled Naoko, and the outgoing, lively Midori.
Norwegian Wood has a December 11th release in Japan but no US distributor yet.
Are you looking forward to the film? Would you be if Greenwood wasn’t attached?