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sea-of-ether
19Mar12
I recommend reading the short story first. I love the minimalism of the visuals, sounds and story.
tiagovitoria
11Mar12
A very interesting essay about the different approaches we can do when filming. Tony Takitani is a compound between classic japanese cinema (front shots, camera at floor level...) and a new way of storytelling through a narrator who's responsible not to let the spectator lose the attention. The beginning background is one of the most beautiful sequences I've ever seen.
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giovanni2046
8Feb12
A classic contemporary japanese movie. Few dialogues and minimal screenplay but not so boring. There is an emotional path the best actor do. I though not to reach the end of it but I enjoy till the end.
usaextrafancy
4Feb12
I love the beautiful and consistent visual language of this film. Nice adaptation.
Tisa
26Sep11
I might be biased (because I love Murakami), but this is one good adaptation. We have so few good movie versions, that this film couldn't help but stand out.
しーちゃん
27Jul11
i loved the short story so much, and i wish i could have loved this film. the nuances are what seemed to define the written story, and i feel like this is were the movie fell short.
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Frej Hedenberg
12Jul11
This beautiful, unassuming film was my introduction to Murakami, and only a few of the books have had the same impact on me. A gem in it's simplicity.
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Patricia Vidal
5Jun11
Beautifully shot. Ichikawa give us a delicate and melancholy view of l o n e l i n e s s, loss and memories and how we grasp to material things as a desperate way to confront modern life's emptiness
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Reno Nismara
24Mar11
jun ichikawa has made a beautifully constructed film with tony takitani. and he did all that without losing the feel of a haruki murakami writing. the narration, the minimalism, and the style are both ichikawa's and murakami's. tony takitani is, in the most proper sense possible, a collaboration. and what about that perfect chemistry between issei ogata and rie miyazawa? goddamn.
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yu. la.
14Feb11
Portraits of loneliness narrated by slideshow editing, a "user-friendly" exercise here reducing literally sequences in snapshots, highlighted by camera turning-page movement, off-field absence and image levels crush, music and narrator voice always "on" events. The story itself was to me lacking thickness, based on the interesting main theme (different value to objects). Reasonable for half an h., didn't "feel" it.
zymu
2Jan11
A movie based on Murakami's statement and with Sakamoto's music, justifies interest. I like Murakami, but that I distinguish cinema and literature, trying always to drift apart from the relation between both and not create images which the representation of one me evokes to other one. Anyway, I think it is a great movie that possesses sensibility and simplicity the life of a man from the most intimate of him.
Lê Nhật Khánh
14Nov10
Excessive voice-over makes this film almost a story with animated illustration rather than a movie. Apart from that, I really enjoy it. Such a beautiful story. And the camera work was wonderful.
Zachary Curl
28Oct10
i think everything about this film adds up to something really wonderful. it's light, at less that 80 minutes, but it fits everything it needs into that short amount of time.
Nurk Njorksen
28Sep10
The camera moves in and out of scenes like a voyueristic horizontal drifter. Score by Ryuichi Sakamoto and based on a Murakami short story ta boot!
Tanto
24May09
I have to disagree about the quality of Tony Takitani as a film--it is a perfect embodiment, and perhaps improvement upon the short story by Murakami. Scratch that--it's better than his writing. His original story lacks emotion, and while this is the definition of subtle, it is quite emotional if you allow it to be. It's slow, spacious, empty, lonely, depressing, and very, very beautiful.
Crap Monster
3Feb09
I was highly underwhelmed by this particular film. The original short story is essentially read word for word by first person narration accompanied by the film's rather bland visual adaptation.