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Norwegian Wood
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| Format | Multiple Formats, Color, NTSC |
| Contributor | Tran Anh Hung, Kiko Mizuhara, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Rinko Kikuchi |
| Language | English |
| Runtime | 2 hours and 13 minutes |
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Based on the best-selling coming-of-age novel by world-renowned author Haruki Murakami (Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles), this lush, gorgeously photographed adaptation features an original score by Grammy®-winner Jonny Greenwood (There Will Be Blood) of Radiohead.
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 (Rinko Kikuchi), a beautiful and introspective young woman. But their complex bond has been forged by the tragic death of their best friend years before. Watanabe lives with the influence of death everywhere. That is, until Midori, a girl who is everything that Naoko is not outgoing, vivacious, supremely self-confident marches into his life and Watanabe must choose between his past and his future.
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A wonderful, passionate, well-nigh unforgettable adaptation of a great novel --Salon.com
The movie s cinematography... paints each frame in rapture. --Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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- MPAA rating : PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.72 Ounces
- Item model number : 25128997
- Director : Tran Anh Hung
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Color, NTSC
- Run time : 2 hours and 13 minutes
- Release date : May 15, 2012
- Actors : Rinko Kikuchi, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Kiko Mizuhara
- Subtitles: : English
- Studio : Flatiron Film Company
- ASIN : B006QVRWEO
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #196,004 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #4,118 in Foreign Films (Movies & TV)
- #7,501 in Romance (Movies & TV)
- #32,769 in Drama DVDs
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This film however, couldn't provide the time to devote to each of these characters. For example, one character, Stormtrooper, is shown twice in the film. Once waking up the main character and wanting to exercise with him and then once, examining nose hairs. However in the book, he hands Toru a firefly that he caught in a jar. Toru, feeling situational melancholy, releases the firefly on the roof of the dorms in a scene I simply would have loved to view in the film. Stormtrooper leaves the dorm shortly there after, about the time when Toru is beginning to feel more and more alone. There's also Reiko who, though present in the film, is a very enjoyable character who gets heavily overlooked here. She cracked me up laughing with her dialogue in the book.
Again I don't fault the film, it's always hard to match a book to film and sometimes it isn't the best thing to do. But in all honesty, had I not read the book, I probably would have enjoyed the film more.
Set in the Japan of 1969, the plot of 'Norwegian Wood' deals with an adolescent guy having more or less fortunate relationships with several girls of his own age. While closely following Murakami's book, the film's story is presented in a steady Japanese pace that may appear unusual to you. Anyway, you are allowed plenty of time to follow all its developments. Its way of telling is intimately but never sentimental - having the bottomline that life must be lived to its very end.
The acting in 'Norwegian Wood' is true Japanese high-quality. Unfortunately it makes a somewhat sad contrast to this film's picturing: one cannot figure out if there wasn't enough money available, or if the director deliberately applied 1969 shooting-methods for authenticity.
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La lingua disponibile è solo ed esclusivamente il giapponese, sottotitolato in inglese.
Meritevole, secondo il parere di chi l'ha ricevuto


