MUMBAI: The Chinese Censors has cleared French-Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung‘s film Norwegian Wood.

Producer Fortissimo‘s spokeswoman Esther Yeung said that she‘d closed a sale of his successful 2010 film with Shanghai Huayu Film Co. which plans to release it later this year in cooperation with the state importer the China Film Group.

Tran said that the censors in China had asked for few changes, "small things, something really unimportant."

The film that grossed about $17 million worldwide since its September premiere, follows Japanese university student Watanabe‘s romances with classmate Midori and Naoko, his late friend‘s mentally ill girlfriend.

Tran‘s debut feature The Scent of the Green Papaya won the Camera d‘Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1993 and was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award. His second film Cyclo, starring popular Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Chiu Wai won the Golden Lion Award for the Best Film at Venice Film Festival.