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 ...

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 ...

What’s unfortunate is that through all the visual beauty, the characters themselves aren’t very interesting or even likable. The film dwells in sadness, but it’s tough to care about what they’re going ...

Norwegian Wood is a moving tale of loss and sexuality set in Tokyo in the late 1960s and adapted from Japanese author Haruki Murakami’s bestselling 1987 novel. In this haunting coming-of-age story, ...

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.

“Life is too short to read books that have not stood the test of time,” proclaims young Nagasawa (Tetsuji Tamayama) early on in Norwegian Wood. It’s a flawed philosophy perhaps, but one it’s all too ...