Description
From the director of the virgin suicides, sofia coppola, and shot entirely on location in japan, lost in translation is a laugh-out-loud portrayal of loneliness and human connection. featuring superior performances from bill murray and scarlett johansson as bob and charlotte, two americans in tokyo. bob is a movie star in town to shoot a whiskey commercial, while charlotte is a young wife tagging along with her workaholic photographer husband. through their respective insomnias, the two cross paths one night in the luxury hotel bar and strike up a surprisingly intimate friendship. as the unlikely pair venture through tokyo together, having often hilarious encounters with its citizens, they ultimately discover a new belief in life’s possibilities.
