21 May 2006
Norwegian Wood
Norwegian Wood is a quirky and deeply moving love story, set against the backdrop of student protests, free love and uncertainty that made up Japanese university life in the 1960s. The young Toru Watanabe is a struggling student who is in love with childhood friend Naoko. While Naoko is dangerously affected by a tragedy that had struck years previously and takes refuge in a remote sanitorium, Toru meets the vivacious Midori and finds his loyalties divided.
A government worker, or ‘calcutec’, is sent on an assignment to a mysterious underground laboratory and finds himself involved in a bitter infowar between two organisations. What is his role in this and the ‘End of the World’? Meanwhile, in another reality, one man is trapped inside a strange walled town from which there is no escape: why did he have to give up his Shadow and read old dreams at the local library of this strange and wondrous place?