Norwegian Wood (2010)
Directed by Trần Anh Hùng
Toru recalls his life in the 1960s, when his friend Kizuki killed himself and he grew close to Naoko, Kizuki's girlfriend, and another woman, the outgoing, lively Midori.
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Tran Anh Hung's film of Norwegian Wood (2010)—the most ambitious movie adaptation of a Murakami work prior to Lee Chang-dong's Burning—demonstrated this all too well.
“Best Murakami adaptation” seems like faint praise given the quality of most of them (2010’s Norwegian Wood is the only prior that comes close to “good”).
While Greenwood has made many great musical scores like with Norwegian Wood and We Need to Talk About Kevin , he really proves himself as the master of his craft here.
Produciton designer Norifumi Ataka (“Norwegian Wood,” Kurosawa’s “The Seventh Code”) captures Tokyo suburban life with impressive verisimilitude, and with dirt and ugliness unceremoniously accumulating around the corners.
He finds a possible successor to his brother in Make Mori (Rinko Kikuchi, “Norwegian Wood”), although it’s obvious that Pentecost has personal reasons for disapproving of the match.
This gives lovely Japanese actress Rinko Kikuchi (see “Norwegian Wood”) a chance to develop without being overshadowed by what could have been an arrogant hot-shot performance by Hunnam.
As his new partner and co-pilot, Rinko Kikuchi (2012's " Norwegian Wood ") gives a great deal of honesty to her role of Mako, but one can tell that her dialogue was either minimized because English isn't her first language, or it was a casualty of the final edit.