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 ...

Norwegian Wood was Murakami's first major hit in Japan and pushed the author into literary superstardom. After the novel's initial release in 1987, Norwegian Wood became a cultural icon.

But Murakami over the years rejected offers to turn the novel into a film. Then came award-winning director Tran Anh Hung, a fan of the novel who approached the author about five years ago.

At its most romantic, “Norwegian Wood” is as swoony as Wong Kar-Wai at his most lovesick, but this is a rare romance where discussion of sex (and sexual dysfunction) occurs throughout without ...

Norwegian wood with a tale to tell. ... Schwitters had turned the one-time potato barn into an artwork – a three-dimensional, live-in sculpture he called a Merzbau, or Merz-construction.

The French-Vietnamese director who adapted Haruki Murakami's best-selling novel "Norwegian Wood" says his film has cleared censors in China, paving the way for the classic coming-of-age story to ...

I can’t say this review is exactly timely. Japanese author Haruki Murakami’s "Norwegian Wood" was published in 1987 and finally translated into English in 2000, so I’m about nine years behind schedule ...

While “Norwegian Wood” suffers from familiar adaptation problems — truncated supporting roles, excessive voiceover — Tran makes a strong, committed effort to turn prose into poetry, and to ...