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.
Direction
Coppola frames loneliness like it's beautiful on purpose.
Acting
Murray's crumpled charm meets Johansson's quiet ache.
Cinematography
Tokyo glows like a dream you can't quite remember.
Director
Sofia Coppola
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released the same year as Kill Bill Vol. 1—two radically different American fantasies of Japan, both obsessed with surface and absence.
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