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A story about a man and a woman who, despite their age difference, have more in common than it first appears. Both suffer with feeling lost and disconnected from the lives they live. Bob is a movie star who no longer does movies and instead does commercials. While this provides more than enough money to live comfortably, it leaves him feeling unfulfilled. Married for 25 years with kids, life seems old and uninteresting to Bob, which contrasts sharply with the bright and loud Tokyo streets.

Cut to Charlotte, a young woman with a philosophy degree that is also in Tokyo with her husband, who's there for work as a photographer. Charlotte feels lost and unsure about her next steps in life. One night, they meet at the hotel bar and strike up a conversation. This interaction leads to them becoming friends, and from that moment, you see Bob change; it almost seems as if a spark is lit, and life becomes more exciting.

Both feel neglected in their lives: Charlotte doesn't feel understood by her fiancé or her mom, which we glimpse during a phone call. Bob faces similar issues; his conversations with his wife seem more focused on trivial matters, like the color of the carpet, than on how he's doing. To me, the relationship between Bob and Charlotte isn't romantic. Instead, they are both very thankful to one another because they guide each other to a better understanding of their paths in life.

Overall this film explores finding meaning in unexpected places.

I went through an array of emotions and expressions watching this film; most of them centred around how bizarre I thought it was, yet it was like a good book I simply couldn't put down even if the film itself lived up to its title at times.

This is by far the best work Bill Murray has done, and it will be a pleasant surprise for many to see him find a new (to me, anyway) side to his ability as an actor. He captures the role with such precision that you don't realise this is the same guy who, dare I even mention it in the same breath, provided the voice of Garfield last year. You see a few traces of his characteristic smugness every once in a while, but by and large the Bill Murray you see is a lot more serious... and seriously damned good.

It's such a simple story... unhappy married man meets unhappy married woman in a place neither of them are familiar with, and suddenly realise that they're all the other has got at least for the time being. In an age where Hollywood is trying (mostly unsuccessfully) to scare and shock us with something new at every turn, Sofia Coppola takes what should be the premise for a typical chick flick and turns it into something that anyone who has ever experienced an emotion of any description can watch and appreciate.

A brilliant film in any language.

There was nothing special, I expected a lot more and in the end it was just a story.

I like that it was honest and there was no happy ending, that would be the truest ending of this story. This is the most important point of my review and I appreciate it. It's a slow-burn movie, with good photography and the culture of japan catches the eye. 6/10 because i expected much more, I wanted to feel the vibe of the movie more etc.

It's a good movie but for my standards, it could be much better.

If you like Pina Colada,

and other alcoholic drinks,

If you leave long pauses,

Cause it gives you time to think,

If you like bad Karaoke,

from collagenous lips,

You will love Japan,

where you never have to tip.

The basic plot is similar to Woody Allen's Manhattan. A beautiful young girl (married this time) has an affair with a much older man, primarily out of boredom, and because his gentle jokes help pass the time.

The movie start by discombobulating you by showing how madly different Japan is from America. The movie looks full of comic promise.

The movie slows to a snail's pace, and nothing happens. At least a lot less of interest happens than on my own explorations of foreign cities. The film feels sloppily and lazily ad-libbed.

The running joke is Japanese people persist in speaking Japanese, because they can't think of anything else to try to communicate with Americans. What is the matter with them? Why don't they speak the English?

The biggest mystery of the film is how did it come to be that a young married middle class couple are living in a luxury Japanese hotel next to faded 70's action star there filming a Japanese whiskey commercial.

The movie projects a mild racism, sneering at the Japanese, not as different, but as inferior. There is no affection or sympathy for them. They are often portrayed as robots or buffoons.

Scarlett Johansson as Charlotte was a good casting choice. She is extremely beautiful, without being flashy or glamorous. She has a unique wholesome look. She confused me only once when she donned a short pink wig, and I did not recognise her. I usually have a lot of trouble telling female actresses apart.

Bill Murray plays Bob Harris a faded, restrained, sad, hen-pecked, defeated character similar to Don Johnston in Broken Flowers, his earlier much more emotional and engaging film.

The moral of the story is, if you are bored, money will not help.

I was greatly disappointed by `Lost in Translation'. I've been in the situation that Bill Murray's character finds himself in: at a loose end in a foreign country. The film captures the sense of alienation and time passing so slowly it seems stuck. It also nicely portrays Murray's character reaching out to Charlotte, the young woman who he meets in his hotel.

However, I was disappointed by the film for two reasons. The first is that it has stunning photography of Tokyo and Kyoto but it views Japan like the two main characters do: through their hotel window. Even when they visit restaurants or night-clubs or in Charlotte's case, temples, the characters do not engage in their surroundings. They treat them as a substandard theme park or theme restaurant, poke fun at them and make fun of the people in them. They even poke fun at the doctors and staff in the hospital. (And what was wrong with Charlotte's foot? We were never told if her toe was broken or bruised although she was seen with a bandage on it.) I can see that Murray's character is there just for the money but Charlotte takes the time to visit temples and Buddhist sites so supposedly she has some interest in Japanese culture. The audience doesn't see much of it. The audience doesn't see much of the friends she has of Japan either.

All of the Japanese - even the friends that Charlotte visits - are shown as laughable. Even if they don't speak bad English the audience is still encouraged to chuckle at them.

I can see why some people would call the movie racist for this reason. But to be fair, all of the people in this movie are shallow. Especially Charlotte. She says that her husband thinks she is a snob because she sneers at the movie star and the LA scene. Charlotte doesn't show much more depth than the blond vapid film star: the blond vapid film star actually says more interesting things that Charlotte does. Charlotte doesn't open a book once during the whole movie and doesn't say anything with any insight.

It is because of this emptiness that I found the film so disappointing. The expression that Murray has on his face when Charlotte leaves the lobby at the end is moving, and so is the final scene. But the film didn't make me like either character. I could feel their loneliness and their culture shock but I didn't have much sympathy for either one of them. Stuck in Tokyo in a top class hotel for a whole week with what looks like an endless amount of cash to spend -- poor them! If I were in their shoes I wouldn't spend that much time in the hotel: I would get out and try to see Tokyo and try to speak openly to the people I met even if they couldn't speak English well. And I would want to see a museum or two. Or a manga store. Murray and Charlotte don't even go shopping.

I would love to know what the Japanese think of this movie. The photography is stunning, but many of the Viewmaster slides I had when I was young also had beautiful pictures of Tokyo and Japan. They showed more about the culture and more respect for the culture too.

I would have loved it if before the end of the movie Godzilla stormed the Tokyo Hilton and squashed Bill Murray and Charlotte and all other smug characters who made fun of the Japanese to a pulp.

I will say one thing in the film's favour: it didn't have any jokes about the food the Japanese eat. But I guess people have grown tired of jokes about sushi and all the food in Japan having suckers on it when every large city in the West has at least one hip sushi bar.

Can't see what all the fuss was about. This is just some mediocre movie about some guy having a mid-life crisis and not quite getting it together with some chick young enough to be his daughter.

I wasn't sure whether the film was trying to be a comedy or some arty statement about missed opportunities. Bill Murray does what Bill Murray does best - look bemused and be sarcastic. Scarlett Johansson does what she does best - walk around in her underwear and gaze seductively at the camera.

It's not a complete disaster of a movie. It is watchable and it does have its moments, funny ... yes, touching .... errmm no.

Despite an occasional misstep, I felt writer-director Sofia Coppola's sure-hand throughout this slight, occasionally lovely film about isolation finding an outlet in admiration. While not a love story per se, "Lost in Translation" is charming and almost-romantic as it ambles along, bringing two kindred spirits together. Coppola seems to excel in a forlorn melancholy that is as beautiful as it is perplexing (you may wonder, "where is she going with this?", but then just as quickly realize that a schedule here isn't the purpose). Bill Murray has some funny moments, and he is surprisingly at home with Coppola's low-key approach. There are a few awkward stops (an outburst at a party is perhaps more fuzzy than anything else), but Murray is comfortable in his scenes with quiet, dreamy-eyed Scarlett Johansson, and their repartee is beguiling. The simple plot--about the alienation any human being would feel in a foreign country--is character-driven, so it seems very slim (particularly in retrospect). Coppola lets sequences breathe and take their own shape; she stays out of Murray's way, but also manages to keep the actor grounded. The alt-rock soundtrack is moody and interesting, and the picture has an unfettering eye for the craziness of a desperately with-it Tokyo. **1/2 from ****

Yes, it has its slow parts.

But this movie leaves one both happy and melancholy.

Bill does an OK job and Scarlett does a really good job. The rut of Murray's character is deeper than his counterpart's.

Just the same, the growing liaison which develops throughout, is uniquely charming. It's merely a bond of friendship with a smoldering flame of romance underneath the surface that can never be realized, but certainly dreamt about. That's the best way I can describe it.

Bill's character merely has fun with her, ever unassuming, which leads to the growing endearment of both to each other with each meeting.

They give the audience more time with Bill's plight in life than Scarlett's. With Bill's character, it's a marriage of many years that is apparently one of love, but where all romance, passion and laughter has long since been lost.

Scarlett, being decades younger of course, has a love as well, but seemingly in its infancy and her Beau is still at the age where he likes to party with his buddies. Just the same, a good and caring fellow.

The Climax fits the movie perfectly.

Finally, since the ___location is Japan, the activities and culture are kind of fun.

This movie defines 'bittersweet' quite well.

It's not a DVD we put in the player too often, but we do enjoy and appreciate its quasi love story. It certainly is a welcome departure from most movies in the romcom genre.

Yea, the idea is great. It's about loniness and boredom. Two characters bored of their life meet each another and notice how much in common they have.

This movie is nothing special, tho I'll admit it is quite genius that it takes in place in Japan, since the language is different and so is the culture, characters always misunderstand what Japanese say and feel awkward with their culture.

Fading movie star Bob Harris ( Bill Murray ) arrives in Japan for a big pay day doing a whiskey commercial. There he meets Charlotte, the bored wife of a photographer on assignment ( Scarlett Johanssen ) and the two spend of the rest of the picture alternating goofing on the Japanese and treading lightly around intimate feeling.

Writer, director Sophia Coppola infuses Translation's melancholy bent with some striking imagery, energized editing and carefree nature as the two leads contend with Tokyo neon and culture in basically an action-less film where confusion and monotony is the catalyst. The late night bar scenes at the hotel create an ideal atmosphere for quiet desperation and tempered by Murray's craggy face dead panning evokes Antonionni with a sense of humor. The simmering sexual tension between the two begins to wear thin after awhile though and Coppola's compromising positions and pregnant pauses begin to repeat and fail to move the story forward. The open ended climax informed by an inflated music score and a step up in the emotion department simply fails to register or live up to the film's first hour and Lost just wanders to its mottled conclusion.

I'm flabbergasted by the hype surrounding this film. It does indeed have some charm and the opening shots of Tokyo remind one of Woody Allen's 'Manhattan, but as a love story? Not! It's easy to see that the camera loves Scarlett Johanssen, and she is lovable, but the plot goes nowhere and the blood of this film is thin and watery, rather than red and robust. Bill Murray's acting as a sour old codger doesn't remind me of anything but someone wandering around on tranquilizers. The screenplay is not exceptional, but the director does show promise and some genuine talent that is really her own. I give this film a 6 for effort.

Lost In Translation (2003) -.

This film feels like Peter Venkman from 'Ghostbusters' (1984) got a job on a Whiskey advert in Japan. So while Bill Murray is quite enjoyable to watch and he genuinely is, without my being able to say why, it's also not really a new performance or anything we haven't seen from him before.

Giovanni Ribisi and Anna Faris don't bring anything fresh either, but Scarlett Johansson is very good in her role.

The story is slow and artsy and if it had been a 30 minute "Short" film, I could have seen what the fuss was about, but for me it just ran too long and without actually seeming to go anywhere. It does have a fun "I'm with them" kind of vibe to it though. You feel like you would be facing the same struggles if you were in their place too.

But in some ways it shows up the Japanese and actually almost seems to take the Mickey out of them racially. Although you do get to see a wide aspect of their culture too.

I was under the impression that the Japanese were all taught English when they are young, but the film shows them to just be a people that chat incessantly regardless of misunderstanding that don't bother to try and interact with the American visitors properly. It seemed like that was just a gimmick to make the story harder for Bill and Scarlett's characters, as I'm sure that the Doctors and Hotel Concierge's would know at least a little English.

The ending also fell a bit flat too. I think it could probably have had a more definite ending with his return to his family or something else to make it absolutely clear that his life had gone back to normal.

It is quirky and doesn't take too much brain power to watch and follow and it has a pleasing feel to it, but it will not be made a permanent part of my collection and will instead be sold on eBay.

646.09/1000.

This really captures the vibe of not just Japan but travelling on your own. I loved Sofia Coppola's pace, like the Japanese whisky Bill Murray's selling, there is time to breath and savour the undertones. My only criticism, and it is a sign of the movie times, Scarlett was 17 during this movie to Bill's 52. There was a strong creep vibe that doesn't sit right post 2020.

The first 10 minutes of the film made me realize from where shawn mendes's song "Lost in Japan" was inspired by. if you look back, you'll see the same images and scenes from the song in the movie. when I was asked what this movie is about, I seemply ansered that the film is about an actor in his fifties or sixties who doesn't act anymore and a young lady who doesn't know what she wants to do in the future. eventually the two characters find comfort in each other's company. now I realize that the movie is about loneliness and how people can find comfort with people they like. I also love the idea that the film happnes in Japan where the characters can't comunicate easily with the people in tokyo, so the title of the film makes sense cause of the lost of the characters and how they can't understand anyone. also the colores of the film were really good and gave the film a colorful tone. overall i feel like the movie was fine, not my top choise to watch but fine. I think shawn mendes did it better with his song.

I must say that I hadn't heard of this movie before the golden globe awards so I thought I would go and see it and see what the buzz was all about. Firstly I must say this was a really good effort by Sophia Coppola considering her pitiful performance in the last godfather movie (I'm sorry folks that is still unforgivable). The movie has a good cast with Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson giving stellar performances with the city of Tokyo epitomising the crisis that both characters are facing. Though they do touch on a romantic sort of bond but more than romantic its a connection of two souls that know that this one week together can perhaps change the course of their lives forever or they weather out the problems that they have for good. I guess it's the ending that brings the rating to 6/10, I guess because it confused me, hopefully I'll get it one day but I still think its a good movie.

It's often the case that your expectations of a movie can influence your enjoyment of the movie. I generally steer clear of detailed reviews before seeing a movie, but do look at star ratings. It was clear that the critics certainly rated Lost In Translation highly and it was also the type of movie that I really enjoy, so I had very high expectations. I've got to say that I was slightly disappointed with it overall.

Bill Murray plays Bob Harris who is a movie star whose best days are behind him. He's in Tokyo shooting a commercial when he befriends the recently wed Charlotte played by Scarlett Johansson. No other characters play a significant role in the movie. Whilst the acting by the two leads is excellent and the script is very good there isn't really a lot that happens during the movie. The jokes about not being able to understand what the Japanese are saying start to wear thin by the end of the movie. Overall a 7/10.

I cannot understand all the great reviews of this film, but then I have seldom agreed with our local newspaper critic. This time around, most of the critics around the country praised the film and the acting. My best friend loved it while I wanted to walk out, but then I often dance to a different drummer. I have never been a fan of Bill Murray as a comic and this film did not make me a fan of his dramatic talent. I assume there must be some there. It was boring, slow-moving and whoever told Bill he could sing has an enormous tin ear. Yes, I understand the loneliness of two people in a strange place, but for two hours, it gets to be a bit much! The romance has left me in my old age, I guess.

This film came highly praised which always raises ones expectations so by the end I was disappointed. It does have one of Bill Murray's finest performances, it does have one or two hilarious scenes, and it's presentation of Tokyo is dazzling and enticing. But there was an uneasyness about the film, the way it gets most of it's laughs at the expense of japanese language and culture and the rather big age difference between the two leads (not helped by Murray looking a lot older than his 53 years). You knew the relationship was always going nowhere and when the laughs dry up the film slowly draws to it's obvious conclusion. There are some great lines mostly between Murray and his wife and the soundtrack by kevin Shields is the coolest thing about the film, which is by no means bad, but in the end you wished for more of a story rather than this dreamy vague impression of one. (6/10)

There's not all that much that can be said about 'Lost In Translation (2003)', a film in which the plot is secondary to the characters and yet even they aren't really all that well developed. The result is a feature that meanders around without ever kicking into gear and ultimately feels almost entirely improvised in a way which seems more due to a lack of proper planning than a spontaneous on-set spark. The focus is placed solely on the relationship that forms between the two protagonists but, while this is certainly a believable and relatively compelling connection, it never felt enough to carry the weight of an entire movie especially since it is painted as platonic for most of the run-time until suddenly the pair - who are separated by a large age gap and are both already married to different people - silently decide it is more than that. There's nothing bad about the flick, though. The almost dream like direction and spur-of-the-moment feel combine with the understated performances to make a film that feels subtly realistic. It's just that there's nothing particularity gripping about it, either. 6/10