The movie adaptation of the novel “Norwegian wood”

Abstract

For a long time, in the research field of the works adapted from literature to cinema, many researchers often assign the literary works a greater value than the adapted works. The contributions to the culture, society, the meaning of these works by themselves used to be overshadowed in compared with the original texts. This makes the adapted works do not be reviewed, evaluated objectively.

Therefore, the adaptation studies have given back the inherent values for the adapted works. That is the unique creativities basing on previous materials. This report will provide some issues of adaptation studies and apply it in the analysis of adaptation by Tran Anh Hung from Japanese best-seller novel: Norwegian Wood by Murakami Haruki.