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 ...

Despite a tepid critical reception so far, people will go see the film adaptation of one of Japan’s most revered books. Unsurprisingly, expectations for the movie were high and media coverage ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...