DREAMING MURAKAMI

DIRECTOR:  NITESH ANJAAN

When Mette Holm begins to translate Haruki Murakami’s debut novel Kaze no uta o kike (Hear the Wind Sing), a two-meter-tall frog shows up at an underground station in Tokyo. The Frog follows her, determined to engage the translator in its fight against the gigantic Worm, which is slowly waking from a deep sleep, ready to destroy the world with hatred.

More than twenty years ago, Mette read a novel by Haruki Murakami, who had yet to reach literary stardom. Back then, she had no idea how the Japanese author’s imagined worlds would steadily shape and transform her own.

Since then Mette Holm has spent thousands of hours translating Murakami’s puzzling and widely discussed stories to his Danish readers. Stories that continuously spellbind and challenge millions of devoted readers all over the planet. 

As Mette struggles to find the perfect sentences capable of communicating what Murakami’s solitary, daydreaming characters are trying to tell us, the boundary between reality and imagination begins to blur.

PRODUCTION FACTS

Duration: 58 min
Release: November 2017
Language: Danish, Japanese, English

Director: Nitesh Anjaan
Editors: Denniz Göl Bertelsen & Nikoline Løgstrup
Cinematographer: Agapi Triantafillidis
Sound designer: Andreas Sandborg
Composer: Anna Rosenkilde
VFX Development: Mathias Bjerre
3D Supervisor: Kim Fersling
VFX: TGBVFX
Colorist: Anders V. Christensen
Producers: Pernille Tornøe & Signe Byrge Sørensen

Produced by Final Cut for Real
 
with support from:
The Filmworkshop Copenhagen
The Sasakawa Foundation
Danish Film Directors
Danish Ministry of Education

In collaboration with DR

festivals

World Premiere at IDFA 2017 - Panorama
Murakami Weekend - Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Docpoint 2018 - Helsinki, Finland
CPH:DOX 2018 - Copenhagen, Denmark
HotDocs 2018 - Toronto, Canada

Contact

PRESS & PUBLICITY
Publicist Sofie Lykke Stenstrop
Tel: +45 23 70 93 16
sofielykke@final-cut.dk

MARKETING & EVENT MANAGER, DENMARK
Niels Elbæk
Tel: +45 24 48 79 40
nielselbaek@final-cut.dk

GENERAL ENQUIRIES
Final Cut for Real - Maria Kristensen
maria@final-cut.dk 

FESTIVALS
Danish Film Institute - Anne Marie Kürstein
kurstein@dfi.dk

SALES
Producer Signe Byrge Sørensen
byrge@final-cut.dk