B00011RPB0

025192468629

2003

2003-10-03

102

1h 42min

Won 1 Oscar, 98 wins & 133 nominations total

Sofia Coppola

Sofia Coppola

Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi

Francis Ford Coppola, Sofia Coppola, Mitch Glazer, Callum Greene, Kiyoshi Inoue, Ross Katz, Fred Roos, Stephen Nomura Schible

Kevin Shields

Lance Acord

Sarah Flack

K.K. Barrett, Anne Ross

Mayumi Tomita, Rika Nakanishi

Towako Kuwajima, Tomomi Nishio

Nancy Steiner

Akemi, Fukushi Kawata, Morag Ross, Yoko Sato

Anthony Katagas, Keizô Shukuzaki

Roman Coppola, Shu Fujimoto, Hiroya Igawa, Motonobu Kato, Takahide Kawakami, Taiichi Sugiyama

Chie Che, Tomiko Ishiyama, Takahiro Kikuchi, Momoko Nakamura, Rika Nakanishi, Hitomi Nimura, Ryo Nobuka, Keisuke Sakurai, Ryo Sugimoto, Toru Takahashi, Michelle Tomaszewski

Dawn Angel, Richard Beggs, George Berndt, David A. Cohen, Ethan Derner, Matthew Hartman, Glenn Kasprzycki, Michael Kirchberger, Robert Knox, Drew Kunin, James Levine, Everett Moore, Marnie Moore, Jory K. Prum, Brian Sarvis, Julia Shirar, Kira Smith, Kent Sparling, Daniel Sperry, Howard Stein, William Storkson, Deborah Wallach, Gene Radzik

Travis Dutch, Robert Rowles

Hirofumi Nakase

Lance Acord, Yoshio Ishikawa, Takurô Ishizaka, Anne Joyce, Takeshi Kagami, Michiaki Kamochi, Akira Kanno, Yasushi Miyata, Takuji Murata, Masayuki Nishimura, Yoshio Sato, Satoshi Tsuyuki, Nobuko Uranishi, Yuji Wada, Mark Williams

Daiki Chiba, Stephanie Hayman, Ryôichi Kondô, Hiroto Nakagaki, Miwa Sakaguchi, Hauko Sone, Akira Yamaguchi

Anita Louise Brown, Noriko Hattori, Masae Sakurai, Haruka Takahashi

Kim Aubry, Susan Finch, Bob Fredrickson, Jamie Kirkpatrick, Jennifer Letterman, Yûji Ohshige, Howard Shur, Heidi Zellner, Jen Choi, Stefan Sonnenfeld

Mikiko Anzai, Takuya Kaneko, Kiyoshi Kurokawa, Keizô Shukuzaki

Richard Beggs, Roger Joseph Manning Jr., Jill Meyers, Brian Reitzell, William Storkson, Tom Boyd, Simon Hanson

Eva Z. Cabrera, Kimiko Onishi

Akira Ebata, Eiji Fujii, Kiyotaka Inagaki, Sakae Kaminaka, Osamu Sasaki, Tomoo Senuma, Yuki Shimizu, Minoru Tsuruno

Hitoshi Abe, Tony Adrid, Ashley Bearden, Susan H. Bodine, Andrea F. Cannistraci, Shari Chertok, Alison Cohen, Blake Crawford, Maureen Duffy, Anita Ekberg, Jonathan Ferrantelli, John B. Finn, Hirohito Gotou, Hiroshi Harada, George T. Hayum, Susan Hebert, Koji Hirano, Ai Ichiki, Sayuri Kanamori, Hiroko Kawasaki, Masashi Kitasato, Brian Kobo, Tomoko Kojima, Paula P. Manzanedo, Masako Matsumura, Ross Miller, Eriko Miyagawa, Taro Miyake, Atsushi Naito, Katumi Nakane, Natsuko Nezu, Angela Panetta, Bennett Pozil, Dennis Reiff, Tomohiko Seki, Yumiko Sekiguchi, Tsutomu Shimada, Kazuko Shingyoku, Naoki Takagi, Yoko Takeuchi, Koichi Tanaka, Kumi Tanaka, Greg Trattner, Barry Tyerman, Maremi Watanabe, Kurt Woolner, Masahiro Yoshikawa, Alison Cohen, Shannon Lail, Joey Cruz Manalang, Kara Mazzola, Tony Muro

Rima Acord, Wes Anderson, Eleanor Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola, Roman Coppola, Joe Dapello, Takashi Fujii, Hiroshi Fujiwara, Aya Furuse, Janet Grillo, Josh Hartnett, Susan Hebert, Hiroko, Yôsuke Imataki, Spike Jonze, Hidesuke Kataoka, Tadahito Kawada, Anton Kawasaki, Nobuhiko Kitamura, Kozo Komurasaki, Hiroshi Kunimasa, Helmut Lang, Pat Lucas, John Lydon, Kelly Lynch, Tatsuya Matsui, Shin ichi Matsumoto, Lorne Michaels, Peter Miles, Damon Murray, Masatoshi Nagase, Christopher Neil, Shinji Nishigaki, Hiroaki Nishimura, Nobuaki Okaji, Akihiko Okamoto, Akira Okano, Keanu Reeves, Brad Rosenberger, David O. Russell, Yûji Sadai, Toshihide Saitô, Greta Seacat, Tomoaki Shiono, Eddie Simon, Paul Simon, Stephen Sorrell, Erwin Stoff, Anna Sui, Jack Sullivan, Masaki Takahashi, Toshinari Takahashi, Jean Touitou, Tsukasa, Yukio Tsutsumimoto, Jessica Tuchinsky, Bart Walker, Kate Waters, Takao Yamamoto, Takuo Yasuda, Tetsurou Yoshida, Minako Yoshii

Comedy, Drama

Focus Features, Tohokushinsha Film Corporation (TFC), American Zoetrope

USA, Japan

English, Japanese, German, French

R

7.7

451370

89

Lost in Translation is a 2003 romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Sofia Coppola. Bill Murray stars as Bob Harris, a fading American movie star who is having a midlife crisis when he travels to Tokyo to promote Suntory whisky. There, he befriends another estranged American named Charlotte, a young woman and recent college graduate played by Scarlett Johansson. Giovanni Ribisi and Anna Faris also feature. The film explores themes of alienation and disconnection against a backdrop of cultural displacement in Japan. Further analysis by critics and scholars has focused on the film s defiance of mainstream narrative conventions and its atypical depiction of romance.

Coppola started writing the film after spending time in Tokyo and becoming fond of the city. She began forming a story about two characters experiencing a romantic melancholy in the Park Hyatt Tokyo, where she stayed while promoting her first feature film, the 1999 drama The Virgin Suicides. Coppola envisioned Murray playing the role of Bob Harris from the beginning and tried to recruit him for up to a year, relentlessly sending him telephone messages and letters. While Murray eventually agreed to play the part, he did not sign a contract; Coppola spent a quarter of the film s $4 million budget without knowing if he would appear in Tokyo for shooting. When Murray finally arrived, Coppola described feelings of significant relief.

Principal photography began on September 29, 2002, and lasted 27 days. Coppola kept a flexible schedule during filming with a small crew and minimal equipment. The screenplay was short and Coppola often allowed a significant amount of improvisation during filming. The film s director of photography, Lance Acord, used available light as often as possible and many Japanese places of business and public areas were used as locations for shooting. After 10 weeks of editing, Coppola sold distribution rights for the United States and Canada to Focus Features, and the company promoted the film by generating positive word of mouth before its theatrical release.

The film premiered on August 29, 2003, at the Telluride Film Festival and was a major critical and commercial success. Critics praised the performances of Murray and Johansson, as well as the writing and direction of Coppola; limited criticism was given to the film s depiction of Japan. At the 76th Academy Awards, Lost in Translation won Coppola Best Original Screenplay, and the film was also nominated for Best Picture, Best Director (Coppola), and Best Actor (Murray). Other accolades won include three Golden Globe Awards and three British Academy Film Awards.

$4,000,000 (estimated)

$925,087

$44,585,453

$118,686,937

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