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Lost in Translation (2003)  link to Lost in Translation on IMDb  link to trailer on IMDb

Number: 2443

poster Lost in Translation

IMDb Rating:
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7.8/10 (352031 votes)

Country: USA, 102 minutes

Spoken Languages: English, German, French, Japanese

Genre(s): Drama

Director(s): Sofia Coppola

Video Codec: Unknown

Storyline:
Middle-aged American movie star Bob Harris is in Tokyo to film a personal endorsement Suntory whiskey ad solely for the Japanese market. He is past his movie star prime, but his name and image still have enough cachet for him to have gotten this lucrative $2 million job. He has an unsatisfying home life where his wife Lydia follows him wherever he goes - in the form of messages and faxes - for him to deal with the minutiae of their everyday lives, while she stays at home to look after their kids. Staying at the same upscale hotel is fellow American, twenty-something recent Yale Philosophy graduate Charlotte, her husband John, an entertainment still photographer, who is on assignment in Japan. As such, she is largely left to her own devices in the city, especially when his job takes him out of Tokyo. Both Bob and Charlotte are feeling lost by their current situations, which are not helped by the cultural barriers they feel in Tokyo, those cultural barriers extending far beyond just not...

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Cast:

photo Scarlett Johansson Scarlett Johansson Charlotte
photo Bill Murray Bill Murray Bob Harris
photo Catherine Lambert Catherine Lambert Jazz Singer
photo François du Bois François du Bois Sausalito Piano
photo Gregory Pekar Gregory Pekar American Businessman #1

Medium: Unknown,

Loaned: No

Aspect ratio: 1.85:1