she said it best: "half-awake in Tokyo". that's the movie in a sentence and probably every first time traveler's experience

Was living around Tokyo when this was made. Probably the only western film that caputres the unique character of Japan.

Lost in Translation is an amazing, amazing piece of work. I remember thinking, “wow” after my first time seeing it. Love it.

We all know what Bill whispered in Johanson's ear. "My all time favorite cartoon cat is Garfiled, and i really feel lucky to play his voice in the coming Garfield movie."

I’m Japanese and I still recommend people to watch this film when they ask me what Japan is like. None of the Ninja, samurai crap. This is the most accurate image of Japan. Love the music that goes with it too.

A film, which an old, dear friend introduced to me. Thinking back makes the memories somewhat feel, like how I feel now when I watch this movie. I’ve seen it many times and it always makes me feel the sense of wonder and slight confusion.

I loved this movie. I consider it a meditation on the nature of friendship. The film is about reaching out and having difficulty connecting with others. It's a movie about mood and observation, not about story and plot. I love how this film was made in such a gentle and graceful manner. Sophia Coppola's second and best film. Perceptive and insightful about human nature.

I just came from a 20th anniversary screening in Auckland my home city in New Zealand seeing it again in a theatre after all these years it a magicial night its my all time favourite movie i will never forget this night

Love stories come in many forms. But Soffia Coppola's masterpiece is in a league of its own. And it is a league that is recognized or even understood by very few. Those of us that have experienced such enchanting moments when we were young and again as we've grown older, cherish this film immensely. For Lost In Translation is one of our own personally mirrored images of our heart's past exchanges. When none of us were truly lost and that of which was translated between us, enriched only infinity upon the love of man and woman.

Everyone in making this movie is just genius, especially Sofia Coppola.

I just fell in love with this masterpiece 12 years ago and have been rewatching it every year since then. Great documentary btw!

I just couldn't stop imagining sofia as Scarlett's character.

This film is awesome. Everyone in it is awesome. Sofia is REALLY awesome! Frig, the enthusiasm, determination, intelligence, it's dripping off of her.

One of my all time favorites. I don't think there could have been a more perfect role for Bill Murray, and he perfectly captured the angst, confusion, and general exhaustion of what comes next, even when you're someone as famous as him. The cinematography, brilliant at is core, beautifully shows the juxtaposition of Japan: a dizzying, busy technological landscape surrounded by tradition, beauty, and calm. Combine that all with a wonderful soundtrack (notably Charlotte's trip to Kyoto), and you've got a cinematic masterpiece that taps into the emotional unlike any other.

20 years old, this year, but as timeless as ever. It invites you in and then envelopes you. One of the most stunning films ever. Thank you, Sofia

Love this movie so much, seen it a thousand times and never gets old

One of my all-time favorites. Just gorgeous. With heart.

Thank you for this gem! I think I'll watch this over and over again over the years... just like I do with the movie.

I’ve seen this movie many times and will watch it again. Every time I finish watching it I get the same satisfaction that you would get after reading your favorite novella.

My favorite movie. This was a treat to watch. Thank you for this.

Great documentary! Such a gem for the nerds who want to know everything about the movies they love. Thank you!!

Amazing documentary, thank you!

An incredible film. One of my all time FAVES

One of the best movies ever made

Yes, thank you for this! It's wonderful.

Man Bill Murray is a fucking G lol who has that much control to just decide to show up whenever the hell he feels like it with no obligation. Every man's dream

Absolutely loved this movie

Love this film so much… and this makes me appreciate it even more. thank you!

Tokyo was the right place to film this movie. But, you can also say this took part in other places in Asia in the 80s, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand. An Expat a little lost meeting another of the same.

Very well done documentary on a film that continues to hold people's interest. Some of the comments below about the film being "racist" or "promoting adultery" are just nonsense. Life is messy, and this film gave a sort of poetic look at how important it is to find someone to connect with.

The whisper at the end felt like a Zen koan similar to if a tree falls in the wood and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Scarlett did visit a temple, Bob did fire golf balls at Mt Fuji a very sacred icon, he helped her medically, and returned her coat. The movie has spiritual overtones that connect it. We're all connected, but due to translation issues, don't always recognize it.

Last Life In The Universe ( 2004) is the Japanese LIT. Like Translation a minor perfect gem of eerie Zen nothingness with one of the most stunning endings to a film ever.

Such a brilliant documentary about a movie that I truly love- thanks for the upload.

Thank you so much for uploading this!

Thanks for posting this it’s my favourite movie

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

my favourite film of all time so happy to see this

I have always and will always love this movie. One of my favorites. Love Sofias movies.

Thank you for this

I‘ve just watched this as I couldn‘t fall asleep- thank you for uploading

Gah ... Sofia is so gorgeous. And cool. And talented.

What a great documentary on a magnificent movie! I really appreciate all the behind the scenes insights. 🙏🏻

Thanks for uploading. Excellent documentary.

i love this film the only film from the 21st century on my all time top 20 list i adore Sofia and all her film. This is a great documentary and makes me appreciate the film even more

By coincidence, this film came out not long before my first trip to Tokyo - I loved the film, and it turned out to reflect part of my trip there... that being said, the film really only captures a small part of the Tokyo experience. It is for sure a very dreamy city.

Absolutely adore this movie to no end. ❤ Love everything about it but it's the soundtrack that really hooked me. It's completely made up of music and artists I've never heard of and it is perfection.

Saw Bill Murray coming out of a yoshinoya in Roppongi at 4am or so coming home from a club, when I assume they were filming this. 😂

Such a great movie ❤

watching this in 2023 and I still "lost in translation" when in regards to Japan

Such a great movie

great film

great documentary

Anybody else had a crush on Sofia in Godfather III? 😅 She was so cute.

Lost in Translation perfectly captures the paradox of being unable to connect in our crowded planet.

I've saw this in the theater with my father. He hated it (a laughing-hate). But hated so much he always tell the story of that day. He even told the story to my soon-to-be wife the last time I saw him before his stroke. He always had a laugh with that memory.

How long have I been in love with this beautiful woman? I can never look away whenever I see her. Ever since we were kids.

Remember watching it at the theater. Great movie but felt sad for the characters.

Unconsumed love, pure potential, it is the ultimate.

LOVE

Half awake in Tokyo

Hypnotic film

Great movie

A great documentation, I just wish there were more Japanese perspectives on the movie and how it was perceived by Japanese critics and audience seeing their own culture depicted that way. In the end western movies about Japan or set in Japan tend to draw from that common stereotype mostly seen from a western angle.

Lost in translation is the best film ever, I guess

9:40 what song is it????

What Bob whispered into Charlot's ear I felt was a no-brainer because how she reacted when Bob had a fling with the nightclub singer, and also when there was the fire alarm and they met in the waiting area. Bob said he didn't feel like he wanted to go home and she said, "So don't." To me that was another major indication that it had become more than platonic, that it wasn't "over". He had a responsibility to his family and she to her husband, but that they had changed. It would take time but I think he whispered something in her ear that related to it not being over. A sequel would be nice but I think Sophia doesn't want that. Also Bill had said in an interview that what had been whispered was something important only between two lovers, which was also to me another indication. So that's my amateur view. Oh, I'm feeling lonely this evening and going to watch it on my DVD ha! I bought the DVD because I was checking it out of the library so much the last time the librarian gave me the eye like I should feel guilty ha! This is a great documentary and so intriguing to see it from the film maker's perspective. I like the bonus parts in the DVD too. Thank you Teo for a great doc!

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Marilyn Monroe was in the same situation. She was depressed every day waiting for Joe DiMaggio at the Imperial Hotel.

It just blows my mind they shot this in 27 days no permits just straight up guerilla style. Makes me think I could do it myself 😂

share what you think he whispers in her ear!

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26:00

25:23 this is why we’re having the writers strike in America. I understand passion for your craft, but consideration for the lives of the crew is essential.

Like Bill would pass the opportunity to be romantically opposite Scarlett Johansson in Japan.... yea right.

“Lost in Translation” is a cliche that became the fitting title. Yet the Italian language title might be closer, still: “Love Translated.” Please DEBATE!

I really dislike male critics trying to "assign" the newness of something that a female character has done for the first time in film so they come across as avante garde and insightful, when really it's just career trawling hiding the same old misogyny.

The bigger “lost in translation” to me is that all of this is being crafted by a woman who experiences life, travel, Tokyo, culture, in a very different way than the vast majority of us ever will. And the characters are only moderately privileged, pretty much normies by her standards; Sofia marionettes these relative plebs through a liminal space and time drawn from her own extraordinary childhood memories. She said as much. We can’t entirely relate to this film, she can’t entirely relate to these characters, but most of us know what it’s like to be in a hotel, and what’s it’s like to be in a place very different than our usual, and of course we all know what it feels like to yearn deeply for a real connection. We all know what alienation feels like, what having both main character syndrome AND engulfed in a massive nameless tide of life feels like. Where a simple piece of buoyant driftwood becomes your greatest need. She may have accidentally or deliberately or both, shown in this film how commercial constructs, treasured by wrote, can lose all meaning when the context changes, when a small patch of ceiling falls in a movie theater and no one but you seems to even notice.,then one person clearly does.. the movie is no longer your central focus; it is barely a focus at all as this new context occurs. And as to her stereotypes and cliches.. are they deliberately done this way to show how the characters are experiencingJapan, to show how cartoonizing and troping people, assigning their identities for them, removes your ability to see their humanity, ironically causing YOU to experience worse isolation yourself. I don’t know. My greatest issue with this film is Scarlett’s age. It’s not okay. She was a minor. Ah but in a world constructed to manufacture exclusivity, competition, idols on plinths, rarely attainable dreams, we will argue that hey plenty of 17 year olds are working, anyone would trade with Scarlett.. Instead of saying we work for the privilege to work, and allow the system to do this to our children. Oh, and pair a 17 year old girl intimately with a man old enough to be her dad. There were NO other humans capable of doing this role? Psh.

I understand how this movie could resonate with some but as a visitor to Japan, and a Japanese language-learner and a father to half-Japanese kids there isn't a snowball's chance in hell of this movie connecting with my own experiences. Yeah Japan is different and it's weird and that's also what makes it so interesting, but not to these two characters. Instead of spending any time at all getting into the perspective of their host culture they just scoff at it and mock it and can't wait to leave. Who wants to watch a movie about people having a miserable time at one of your favorite places because of their own unwillingness to be curious and to exist outside of their comfort zones?

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I still can't understand why people liked this movie, it was just two ignorant Americans that had little interest to know a very different culture like the Japanese, which was also awfully portrayed with nothing but stupid clichees, but I guess that's where having the family name Coppola helps

cult of racist? hahaha

This was before she started looking Butch.

It was a horrible movie about adultery trying to make adultery look OK

Two of the worst movies ever made are Lost in Translation and Into the Wild

Great movie, I loved it

Funny, I don’t connect with the characters, I just feel sorry for them.

boring