If you don’t know Haruki Murakami, he’s one of Japan’s most popular and celebrated authors. His novels rarely develop in a straightforward manner and should give any director more leeway in translating to film. Norwegian Wood talks about a college student’s coming of age with two different women. Anh Hung Tran will direct. He filmed Cyclo, a well-received film in the mid 1990s His most recent film is I Come with the Night. That one stars Josh Barnett, Byung-hun Lee and Takuya Kimura. It looks pretty slick and the trailer’s more fascinating than pictures of Murakami, so the promo’s above.

Haruki Murakami’s ‘Norwegian Wood’ coming to big screen [Japan Today]