[Norwegian Wood: Love and Loss and Memory, Too

[I am so happy that they have finally made a movie based on one of Haruki Murakami's best novels. I hope that I will be able to find it on iTunes.]

"Hey, you're not a liar, are you?"

"It's 1967, and veracity is prized on college campuses. That's why outgoing Tokyo student Midori (Japanese-American model-actress Kiko Mizuhara) interjects that odd question into her very first conversation with a quiet classmate, Watanabe (Death Note star Kenichi Matsuyama)."

"In fact he's not a liar. But the truth is knotty in Norwegian Wood, deftly adapted by Franco-Vietnamese writer-director Tran Anh Hung from Haruki Murakami's most popular novel. (Published in 1987, the book has reportedly sold 12 million copies and been translated into 33 languages.)"

"There's the matter of Watanabe's high school friend, Kizuki, who killed himself. And Kizuki's girlfriend, Naoko (Rinko Kikuchi), who might now be Watanabe's girlfriend. She's at a rustic asylum outside Kyoto, and the doctor says she shouldn't see Watanabe for now. It's a bit much to explain."