Lost in Translation

A comedy drama film, written and directed by Sofia Coppola, centers on Bob Harris (Murray), an American action movie star on the downward slope of his career, who has come to Tokyo, Japan to film a whiskey commercial. He meets Charlotte (Johansson), a young woman married to a self-centered celebrity photographer, and the two share an unconsummated romance, perhaps more of a friendship, while exploring the cultural life of Tokyo. On its surface, Lost in Translation is a movie about culture shock between East and West, yet this reveals itself as a metaphor for more existential themes of alienation and loneliness and, alternatively, companionship. The film explores how these themes combine at certain stages in life, against the background of highly modern Japanese cityscapes. (wikipedia)