Lost in Translation (2003)

Japan, United Kingdom, United States of America

Drama, Romance

American Zoetrope, Focus Features, TFC, Elemental Films

Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris, Akiko Takeshita, Kazuyoshi Minamimagoe

Sofia Coppola

Sofia Coppola

Taglines: Everyone wants to be found.

hotel room, adultery, japan, unsociability, upper class, pop star, age difference, photographer, commercial, karaoke, homesickness, culture clash, jet lag, midlife crisis, loneliness, tokyo, japan, unlikely friendship, aftercreditsstinger, woman director

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.

Reviews:

Author: JPV852
Lost in Translation is one of my all-time favorite movies. The film grabbed me when I first saw it in the theater (unusual for back then, but my cineplex got this one in) and since I've watched it dozens of times. Bill Murray and Scarlet Johansson are both great and Sofia Coppola's direction taking in the sights and sounds of Tokyo (a city I've always been curious about and wanted to visit) was amazing.