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Tony Takitani
2004
When technical illustrator Tony Takitani asks his wife to resist her all-consuming obsession for designer clothes, the consequences are tragic. Read more
| Starring | Issei Ogata, Rie Miyazawa, Shinohara Takahumi |
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| Director | Jun Ichikawa |
| Genres | World Cinema |
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Tony Takitani
When technical illustrator Tony Takitani asks his wife to resist her all-consuming obsession for designer clothes, the consequences are tragic.
| Starring | Issei Ogata, Rie Miyazawa, Shinohara Takahumi |
|---|---|
| Director | Jun Ichikawa |
| Studio | AXIOM |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 15 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: Japanese |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 24 Jul 2006 Production year: 2004 |
| Format | DVD |
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28 out of 40 people found this review helpful
Beautifully shot
This film is beautifully shot and scored; the constant left to right panning of the camera is reminiscent of a Japanese scroll.
However as a big fan of Haruki Murakami's fiction I felt that this adaptation captured only half the story....the portrayal of loneliness and solitude is rendered bland and washed out without the inner dialogue and imaginings of the protagonist.
The narrative/dialogue combination goes some way to rectifying this but it is not totally successful.
Towards the end it felt too long even though it’s barely an hour and a quarter long.
Perhaps there is good reason Murakami is famously reluctant to allow adaptation of his work -
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10 out of 10 people found this review helpful
Subtle, delicate, compelling
How a man's life came into its own and its influences to the present, a movie within a movie is created in this mesmerising story. Subtly and delicately told, the movie begins filled with images of Japan's past from the twenties onwards. The story soon moves to the present and a compelling story of a loner who finds love with a woman obsessed with clothes. The story very sensitively looks at grief and how this man who was terrified of loosing the happiness he'd found, deals with this and the re-emergence of his loner self. Beautifully shot and superbly directed, this is a movie that will be particularly appreciated by lovers of French arthouse movies and Japanese culture.
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