![]() She appears to blame herself for his suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning otherwise, his act would appear inexplicable. ![]() It is Naoko’s 20th birthday, and her loss of virginity is an earth-shaking event deepened by their shared, unspoken grief.Īfterward, when Watanabe brings up Kizuki’s name for the first time, Naoko collapses in tears and confesses that her sexual unresponsiveness to Kizuki, whom she had known since childhood, was a source of anguish. ![]() Romantic sex still bore a mystical aura.ĭuring the first encounter of Watanabe (Kenichi Matsuyama), an earnest, brooding Japanese college student, and Naoko (Rinko Kikuchi), the onetime sweetheart of his best friend, Kizuki, who committed suicide, the camera studies the delicate curves of their lips merging in a near-sacred rite of communion. Yes, there were casual hookups then, but they were not called that in the late 1960s, when the story takes place. ![]() The dreamy, protracted love scenes in “Norwegian Wood” recall that now quaint era near the peak of the sexual revolution when intense young love fired the collective imagination with envy, prurience and awe. ![]()
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