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Lost in Translation |
| CAST : Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray, Akiko Takeshita, Kazuyoshi Minamimagoe, Kazuko Shibata, Take, Ryuichiro Baba ... |
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PRODUCER : Sofia Coppola, Ross Katz |
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COMPOSER : Brian Reitzell, Kevin Shields |
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DISTRIBUTOR : Monopole Pathé |
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RUNTIME : 1 hour 42 minutes |
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LANGUAGE : English, Japanese, German, French |
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 Everyone wants to be found.
Bob Harris (Bill Murray) and Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) are two Americans in Tokyo. Bob is a movie star in town to shoot a whiskey commercial, while Charlotte is a young woman tagging along with her workaholic photographer husband (Giovanni Ribisi). Unable to sleep, Bob and Charlotte cross paths one night in the luxury hotel bar. This chance meeting soon becomes a surprising friendship. Charlotte and Bob venture through Tokyo, having often hilarious encounters with its citizens, and ultimately discover a new belief in life's possibilities. |
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 The idea of doing a movie in Japan came to the director after having done several trips there when she was younger. To find the inspiration, she walked a lot in Tokyo and brought back many photos and pieces of movies of the places where she wanted the movie to play.
The shooting lasted four weeks and a half and the budget was small.
In the scene where the fire alarm begins to sound, the fifty extras who had been hired at the last minute by the casting-team had arrived dressed in suits, the director made the remark that given that the crisis happens in the middle of the night it would be more logical if the hotel clients were dressed in Pajamas. So the crew started to collect every piece of correct clothing in the hotel in order to dress the extras properly. |
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Pascal's review |
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September 05, 2005 |
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Small budget, successful result ! |
| The movie is very pleasant. The actors are sincere, as Bill Murray perfectly incarnates his role of declining actor in midlife crisis, as Scarlett Johansson (who has grown since her role in “The Horse Whisperer" is impeccable in the character of the young woman in crisis also, asking to herself what she is doing of her life, after having turned twenty-five. The places also bewilder us and make us discover or rediscover Japan, the paradoxical land, anchored in ancestral traditions and also the “country of technology”, that Tokyo perfectly represents, futurist city where nearly all the movie plays. Briefly, a touching movie, diverting and greatly acted and directed, in spite of the limited financial and temporal budget. |
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| FILMING LOCATION : Kyoto, Tokya (Japan) |
| SOUND MIX : Dolby Digital | COLOR : Color |
| CINEMATOGRAPHY : Lance Acord | CINEMATOGRAPHY : Nancy Steiner |
| SET DECORATION : Towako Kuwajima | MAKEUP : Morag Ross |
| PROD. BUDGET : $ 4'000'000 | STUNT COORDINATOR : Hirofumi Nakase |
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