Lost In Translation (2003)
95%RT Audience Score: 85%
Awards & Nominations: Won 1 Oscar
98 wins & 133 nominations total
Effectively balancing humor and subtle pathos, Sofia Coppola crafts a moving, melancholy story that serves as a showcase for both Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson.
Lost in Translation is a movie that will make you laugh, cry, and question the meaning of life all at once. Sofia Coppola’s direction and Bill Murray’s performance are a match made in heaven, and Scarlett Johansson holds her own as well. The film’s exploration of loneliness and connection is both poignant and hilarious, and the Tokyo setting adds a unique flavor to the mix. It’s a movie that will stick with you long after the credits roll, and you’ll find yourself recommending it to everyone you know. Don’t be like me and wait too long to watch this gem!
Production Company(ies)
Focus Features, Tohokushinsha Film Corporation, American Zoetrope
Distributor
Focus Features
Release Type
Theatrical
Filming Location(s)
Park Hyatt Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
MPAA / Certificate
Rated R for some sexual content
Year of Release
2003
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Dolby Digital DTS
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Aspect ratio:1.85 : 1
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Runtime:1h 42m
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Language(s):English, Japanese, German, French
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Sep 19, 2003 Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 3, 2004
Genre(s)
Comedy/Drama
Keyword(s)
Worldwide gross: $118,686,937
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $192,376,303
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 722
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 20,978,877
US/Canada gross: $44,585,453
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): $72,267,301
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 904
US/Canada opening weekend: $925,087
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $1,499,447
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,234
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): $4,000,000
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): $6,483,487
Production budget ranking: 1,828
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): $3,491,358
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): $182,401,458
ROI to date (est.): 1,829%
ROI ranking: 55
Scarlett Johansson – Charlotte
Giovanni Ribisi – John
Anna Faris – Kelly
Fumihiro Hayashi – Charlie
Catherine Lambert – Jazz Singer
Director(s)
Sofia Coppola
Writer(s)
Sofia Coppola
Producer(s)
Sofia Coppola, Ross Katz
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
Won 1 Oscar
98 wins & 133 nominations total
Academy Awards
Oscar Best Writing Winners, Oscar Nominees, Oscar Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen Winners, Oscar Winners
All Critics (234) | Top Critics (54) | Fresh (223) | Rotten (11)
…its pretty images of Tokyo and oddball intergenerational friendship coalesce into something unexpectedly moving…
March 16, 2020
Joshua Rothkopf
In These Times
TOP CRITIC
A marvellous, exquisite movie.
January 11, 2018
Neil Norman
London Evening Standard
TOP CRITIC
Excellent but mature film about finding a connection.
December 25, 2010 | Rating: 5/5
Nell Minow
Common Sense Media
TOP CRITIC
Lost in Translation revels in contradictions. It’s a comedy about melancholy, a romance without consummation, a travelogue that rarely hits the road.
October 5, 2008
Richard Corliss
TIME Magazine
TOP CRITIC
Very much a mood piece, the film’s deft balance of humor and poignancy makes it both a pleasurable and melancholy experience.
October 5, 2008
David Rooney
Variety
TOP CRITIC
With this film it becomes clear that Sofia Coppola is a filmmaker with eyes all her own.
November 1, 2007
David Ansen
Newsweek
TOP CRITIC
Life stops being terrifying when we open the doors to the unknown. Even for a short amount of time. Coppola’s “Lost in Translation” is written beautifully. Full review in Spanish
April 7, 2022 | Rating: 7/10
Victor Pineyro
Seventh Art Studio
Lost in Translation respectfully tackles the subject of companionship and relationships while still providing laughs. Its a film that I regretfully waited too long to view, but grateful to have found this gem.
February 18, 2022 | Rating: 4/4
David Gonzalez
Reel Talk Inc.
Murray, playing an extension of himself, fills the role with ease, and Johansson is right in step with him.
October 9, 2020 | Rating: 4/4
Tom Meek
Cambridge Day
What Coppola presents is something akin to a mindfulness session – the art of being present in the moment.
July 16, 2020 | Rating: 4/5
Kelechi Ehenulo
Screen Queens
I can never remember the plot, but who cares. The emotional throughline is crystal clear.
July 1, 2020
CJ Sheu
Review Film Review
Like her debut film, The Virgin Suicides, Coppola creates a beautiful-looking film with depth and texture, along with a couple of outstanding performances from its lead actors.
November 15, 2019
Micheal Compton
Bowling Green Daily News…
Plot
Middle-aged American movie star Bob Harris is in Tokyo to film a personal endorsement Suntory whiskey ad solely for the Japanese market. He is past his movie star prime, but his name and image still have enough cachet for him to have gotten this lucrative $2 million job. He has an unsatisfying home life where his wife Lydia follows him wherever he goes – in the form of messages and faxes – for him to deal with the minutiae of their everyday lives, while she stays at home to look after their kids. Staying at the same upscale hotel is fellow American, twenty-something recent Yale Philosophy graduate Charlotte, her husband John, an entertainment still photographer, who is on assignment in Japan. As such, she is largely left to her own devices in the city, especially when his job takes him out of Tokyo. Both Bob and Charlotte are feeling lost by their current situations, which are not helped by the cultural barriers they feel in Tokyo, those cultural barriers extending far beyond just not knowing the language. After a few chance encounters in the hotel, they end up spending much of their time hanging out together, each helping the other deal with their feelings of loss in their current lives. The friendship that develops between the two, which is not always a bumpy-free one, may be just for this specific place and time, but it may also have long lasting implications.
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