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 breakthrough 1987 novel “Norwegian Wood” is at once so gorgeously detailed and emotionally transcendent as to seem simultaneously cinematic and utterly unfilmable. Fans of the book ...

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami is a fictional 1987 novel set in 1960s Tokyo. The novel became popular with Japanese youth and propelled Murakami to new heights of fame. The narrator Toru Watanabe ...

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 ...

The director of the anticipated adaptation of Japanese writer Haruki Murakami's hit novel "Norwegian Wood" said the movie will be loyal to the original story. By The Associated Press More Pusan news ...

Today's modern, American young adult is constantly looking for their key to liberation—which is to say, the figure or epiphany that frees them from anything and everything that prevents them from ...

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 ...

Beatles geeks, Occupy populists and postmodern fiction nerds should merge sweetly, and sourly, in Norwegian Wood, director Tran Anh Hung's adaptation of Haruki Murakami's 1987 novel. It's a windswept ...

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