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Set in the 1960's, high school student Watanabe Toru loses his only friend Kizuki after he commits suicide. Toru, now looking for a new life, enters a university in Tokyo. By chance, Toru meets Kizuki's ex-girlfriend Naoko in the university. They grow close because they both share the same loss. As Toru and Naoko grow even closer, Naoko's sense of loss also grows. After Naoko's 20th birthday, she leaves for a sanitarium in Kyoto. Toru, devastated by the situation, meets pure-hearted Midori during the spring semester. Midori looks like a small animal that just came into the world. Edit Translation

  • English
  • magyar / magyar nyelv
  • dansk
  • Norsk
  • Country: Japan
  • Type: Movie
  • Release Date: Dec 11, 2010
  • Duration: 2 hr. 13 min.
  • Score: 6.8 (scored by 2,108 users)
  • Ranked: #9427
  • Popularity: #2855
  • Content Rating: 13+ - Teens 13 or older

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LtFire
21 people found this review helpful
Mar 5, 2013
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Overall 9.0
Story 10
Acting/Cast 10
Music 9.0
Rewatch Value 9.0
I don’t think I have ever rated a love story film 9/10 but this is something very special.

Norwegian Wood has managed to touch me, as I have felt like each of these characters at some time in my life.

Turn the lights off, watch it alone and make sure you are not interrupted. It will slowly creep up on you, making you feel something not just about the movie, but about you and your past.

A must! even for you who have read the book!
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addicted2dramas
19 people found this review helpful
Nov 6, 2012
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Overall 7.0
Story 9.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 9.0
Rewatch Value 3.0
What caught my attention was the story about tragic loss set in the 1960s. I should have guessed the involvement of sex in the movie judging from its name 'Norwegian Wood' (a very popular Beatles' song- one of my personal favourites too). This should fall under the genre of doom-erotica because there's both in it- lots of tragedy and lots of sex.

It is basically a love triangle between a self-absorbed guy, his schizophrenic friend and a free-spirited girl. I loved the whole idea of it, and unique characterizations. I think I loved Midori the best. Watanabe has to be one of the dullest protagonists I have encountered in a long time. I would gladly call him an indecisive jerk who likes screwing around with the feelings of both girls. I take it that he and Naoko are bound by their mutual feelings of loss, and liked that aspect of their relationship very much. I can't help but say this movie is surprisingly likable and one of the best made by the Japanese (out of the ones I have seen).

With its outstanding camera work this could have easily been a masterpiece. There are scenes which outright take your breath away. I also liked how the relationship between Watanabe and Naoko is shown in every season, providing us with a distraction from their (sometimes boring) relationship in the form of beautiful scenery and settings. It also has very good background score.

Only after I was done watching the movie, its good points crawled into my mind. It was a great story with a good cast and a slow screenplay. There were times I was bored and annoyed while watching this movie, but I reckon the novel must be loads better. I am definitely going to read it.

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  • Movie: Norwegian Wood
  • Country: Japan
  • Release Date: Dec 11, 2010
  • Duration: 2 hr. 13 min.
  • Content Rating: 13+ - Teens 13 or older

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  • Score: 6.8 (scored by 2,108 users)
  • Ranked: #9427
  • Popularity: #2855
  • Watchers: 4,867

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