'Norwegian Wood' searching for U.S. release

'Norwegian Wood'Tran Ang Hung's "Norwegian Wood" remains searching for a U.S. release by Soda Pictures and Danger Signal Delivering.Danger Signal will handle the theatrical release within the month of the month of january as well as VOD while Soda will handle DVD delivering in mid-2012. "Norwegian Wood" carried out within the Venice and Toronto festivals a year ago. It's based on Haruki Murakami's novel, launched later, and stars Kenichi Matsuyama, Rinko Kikuchi and newcomer Kiko Mizuhara."Norwegian Wood" signifies the loves and deficits from the sensitive male college student inside the sixties who's thinking about American literature in comparison towards the era's political upheavals. Tran won the Venice Golden Lion in 1995 for "Cyclo." Soda/Danger Signal will partner with Vintage Books to produce the film tie-in version in the novel inside the U.S. and Canada. Mongrel Media will release the film in Canada. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com