The director of a soon-to-be-released movie based on Haruki Murakami's book "Norwegian Wood" said it took him four years to win the approval of the Japanese author to adapt the popular novel. By The ...

Haruki Murakami’s 'Norwegian Wood' reshaped my understanding of loneliness through grief, memory, and quiet disconnection.

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 ...

Young love in all its agonies is something we’ve all experienced, and I’m pretty sure it’s something we all remember at a visceral level, whether we’re 14 or 95 or somewhere in between. Yet it’s a ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Norwegian Wood” is a confounding film, beginning with this: It’s most likely to appeal to fans of the Haruki Murakami novel on which it’s based, and they’re the least likely to enjoy it. That’s ...

I had always loved the Beatles and vibed with “Norwegian Wood” when I encountered Haruki Murakami’s bestselling novel of 1987 by the same title. The book propelled me to contemplate the deeper ...

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 ...