Tony Takitani
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 16 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 10, 2006
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Strand Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Issey Ogata & Miyazawa Rie | |
Performer: | Hidetoshi Nishijima, Shinohara Takahumi, Shihodo Wataru, Kino Hana, Kusano Toru, Oyamada Sayuri & Tanigawa Saho | |
Directed by | Jun Ichikawa | |
Music by | Ryuichi Sakamoto | |
Screenwriting by | Jun Ichikawa | |
Produced by | Ishida Motoki | |
Director of Photography: | Hirokawa Taishi | |
Executive Production by | Hashimoto Naoki & Yonezawa Keiko |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
An ethereal modern fable without a moral, Tony Takatani seeps into the soul and lingers. For filmgoers in search of a quietly absorbing escape, it might be the perfect holiday-movie antidote.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
Rating: 3.5/4 --
It's a film for specialized tastes, quiet, delicate. But it suits those tastes beautifully.
Chicago Tribune
Rating: A --
An impressive achievement.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
This could reverently be called a model of minimalism, but I am more inclined to call it dull as dishwater.
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Film Journal International
Rating: 3/4 --
Tony Takitani, fablelike and beautiful, requires a certain amount of patience, but its small, peculiar charms work their way into your soul.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Though it falters as a narrative, Tony Takitani sticks in the mind with its poetic contemplativeness.
Houston Chronicle
Included in Entertainment Weekly's Top Ten Films Of The Year -- A quiet dream of a movie -- it's like VERTIGO refashioned into a sedately haunted Japanese tone poem.
Entertainment Weekly
Product Description:
TONY TAKITANI is an eloquent, deftly told tale based on a short story published in The New Yorker, written by Japanese bestselling author Haruki Murakami (NORWEGIAN WOOD, KAFKA ON THE SHORE). Issey Ogata stars as the title character, a simple, undemanding mechanical draftsman who lives a lonely existence. His mother died shortly after he was born, and his father (also played by Ogata) is a jazz musician who is rarely around. But when Tony meets the young and beautiful Eiko (Miyazawa Rie), he falls for her instantly, despite their 15-year age difference. Their friendship slowly develops into love, and Tony soon discovers that Eiko is a shopaholic who cannot stop buying clothing. When tragedy strikes, Tony is forced to look at his life in a whole different way.
Written and directed by Jun Ichikawa (RYOMA'S WIFE, HER HUSBAND AND HER LOVER), TONY TAKITANI is told in long scenes with little or no dialogue; sometimes the characters themselves finish parts of the narration, which is delivered by Hidetoshi Nishijima at a soft, deliberate pace. The intelligent script, which is extremely faithful to Murakami's original story, is accompanied by Ryuichi Sakamoto's gorgeous, spare score and Hirokawa Taishi's stark, captivating cinematography.
Written and directed by Jun Ichikawa (RYOMA'S WIFE, HER HUSBAND AND HER LOVER), TONY TAKITANI is told in long scenes with little or no dialogue; sometimes the characters themselves finish parts of the narration, which is delivered by Hidetoshi Nishijima at a soft, deliberate pace. The intelligent script, which is extremely faithful to Murakami's original story, is accompanied by Ryuichi Sakamoto's gorgeous, spare score and Hirokawa Taishi's stark, captivating cinematography.
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Product Info
- UPC: 712267250721
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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