“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 ...

"The more the memories of Naoko inside me fade, the more deeply I am able to understand her. I know, too, why she asked me not to forget her. Naoko herself knew, of course. She knew that my memories ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are books you admire, books you enjoy, and then there are books that quietly rearrange your inner furniture. Haruki Murakami’s 'Norwegian Wood' belongs firmly in the last category for me. I ...

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 ...

I can't find my high school copy of Norwegian Wood, but I remember what it looks like: the paperback cover is peeling and bent almost entirely backwards; the pages are dog-eared and torn from rushed ...