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  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Red Flag Releasing (RFR)
  • 2 h 13 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Red Flag Releasing (RFR)
  • 2 h 13 m

Summary Tokyo, the late 1960s... Students around the world are uniting to overthrow the establishment and Toru Watanabe's personal life is similarly in tumult. At heart, he is deeply devoted to his first love, Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman. But their complex bond has been forged by the tragic death of their best friend years b...

Directed By: Anh Hung Tran

Written By: Haruki Murakami, Anh Hung Tran

  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Red Flag Releasing (RFR)
  • 2 h 13 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Red Flag Releasing (RFR)
  • 2 h 13 m

Norwegian Wood

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 19 Critic Reviews
58
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 14 User Ratings
7.2
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Summary Tokyo, the late 1960s... Students around the world are uniting to overthrow the establishment and Toru Watanabe's personal life is similarly in tumult. At heart, he is deeply devoted to his first love, Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman. But their complex bond has been forged by the tragic death of their best friend years b...

Directed By: Anh Hung Tran

Written By: Haruki Murakami, Anh Hung Tran

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 19 Critic Reviews
58
42% Positive
8 Reviews
58% Mixed
11 Reviews
0% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 19 Critic Reviews
58
42% Positive
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58% Mixed
11 Reviews
0% Negative
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90
Jan 7, 2012
This is a wonderful, passionate, well-nigh unforgettable adaptation of a great novel about the horrors of love, and the wonderful fact that at least some of us live through it and come back for more.
By Andrew O'Hehir FULL REVIEW
75
Jan 7, 2012
You can blissfully zone out on the director's pretty pictures, which is a permissible indulgence when the pictures are as delicately alluring as they are here. Also, the performances of Kikuchi and Hatsune are first-rate.
By Peter Rainer FULL REVIEW
63
Jan 6, 2012
At times, the story seems to exist in the instant between wakefulness and sleep, a dreamy state that's also startlingly realistic.
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60
Jan 3, 2012
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.
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58
Jan 4, 2012
Tran's visual precision is betrayed by his jumbled script, which fails to impose a cinematic structure on the source material.
By Sam Adams FULL REVIEW
50
Jan 6, 2012
For a sex movie, Norwegian Wood is about as dry as a pocketful of sand. Even for a film set in a land that considers paper folding an exciting activity, this is dull stuff.
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW
40
Jan 3, 2012
Despite Hung's obvious gifts as a filmmaker, he has ditched this raw immediacy in favor of a drifty, overstuffed, ultimately dull melodrama.
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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 14 User Ratings
7.2
57% Positive
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43% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 14 User Ratings
7.2
57% Positive
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43% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Production Company Asmik Ace Entertainment, Dentsu, Fuji Television Network, Kôdansha, Sankei Shimbun, Sumitomo Corporation, WOWOW
Release Date Jan 6, 2012
Duration 2 h 13 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website https://www.facebook.com/norwegianwoodfilm
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Awards

Asian Film Awards
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
Dubai International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Istanbul Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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