Celebrated Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung (The Scent of Green Papaya) mounted and helms this ambitious adaptation of Haruki Murakami's nostalgic 1987 novel. The story unfolds in 1967 Tokyo and issues Watanabe, a devoted school university student with a marked degree of uncertainty about how he should strategy relationships. He falls into reciprocal enjoy with Naoko, a stunning and smart youthful woman from his high-school years, but their connection is perpetually haunted by a tragic function from your past -- the demise of very best pal Kizuki a long time prior. Watanabe can't shake the affect of death, although Naoko senses that some vital portion of her is now forever missing and irretrievable. Around the night that Naoko turns 20, she and Watanabe make really like, but she soon drops away from higher education and inexplicably disappears through the young man's lifestyle. At regarding the identical time, he meets Midori, an outstanding youthful lady who seems to possess every little thing that Naoko lack