Original title: "Noruwei no mori."

Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in
Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but
their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend
years before. Toru begins to adapt to campus life and the loneliness and
isolation he faces there, but Naoko finds the pressures and
responsibilities of life unbearable. As she retreats further into her own
world, Toru finds himself reaching out to others and drawn to a fiercely
independent and sexually liberated young woman. A magnificent blending of
the music, the mood, and the ethos that was the sixties with the story of
one college student's romantic coming of age, Norwegian Wood brilliantly
recaptures a young man's first, hopeless, and heroic love.