The fact that "Norwegian Wood" is based on Haruki Murakami's 1987 international best-seller should encourage many viewers to give this long, elegantly shot, sporadically involving Japanese film a try.

With his striking visual sense and gift for conjuring a mood of languid sensuality, Tran Anh Hung would seem the ideal filmmaker to tackle “Norwegian Wood,” Haruki Murakami’s beguiling novel of ...

For many Japanese readers — and readers around the world too, actually — Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood is one of those novels, a book read during youth that somehow defines, at least for a few ...

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Vietnamese-French director Tran Anh Hung crossed cultural and linguistic borders to direct his latest film, “Norwegian Wood,” based on the cult coming-of-age Japanese novel. The Oscar-nominated ...

Adapting a novel steeped in sensory experiences requires transporting them into an entirely different medium. Within the first 15 pages of Haruki Murakami’s soulful 1987 romance “Norwegian Wood,” the ...

“Norwegian Wood” is deservedly praised for its profound depiction of love and coming-of-age, but this praise might be misdirected. Though most readers would agree the central conflict of the story ...

The big, bad wolf of teen angst lurks in the “Norwegian Wood,” starring Rinko Kikuchi (left) and Kenichi Matsuyama. For a sex movie, “Norwegian Wood” is about as dry as a pocketful of sand. Even for a ...

An elegant, immaculately shot meditation on survival and loss, Tran Anh Hung’s adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s novel Norwegian Wood is a beauteous, lukewarm bore. Frequent Hou Hsiao-hsien ...