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 …

Never knew this, but Hollywood has several diversity programs for directors and writers. Not many for Asian actors, so better practice your Long Duk Dong accent. Can you imagine an acting class for Asians? One hour spent on different intonations for “ah-so”. Twenty people, in unison, repeating “AHHH so. Ah SOOO. What’s happening hot stuff”. …