Synopsis
When technical illustrator Tony Takitani asks his wife to resist her all-consuming obsession for designer clothes, the consequences are tragic.
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Cast
- Issey OgataTony Takitani / Shozaburo Takitani
- Rie MiyazawaKonuma Eiko / Hisako
- Hidetoshi NishijimaNarrator
- Takahumi ShinoharaYoung Tony Takitani
- Miho FujimaHisako's Sister
Recommendations
- 100
Christian Science Monitor
The movie's underlying theme is the complex relationship between objects and memories, worked out through a taut, compelling story and superbly understated acting. Ryuichi Sakamoto composed the atmospheric score. - 100
New York Post
No adventurous filmgoer will want to miss Tony Takitani. - 100
Entertainment Weekly
It's a quiet dream of a movie, a vision of loneliness giving way to love, then to loneliness again; it's like "Vertigo" remade in a sedately haunted style of Japanese lyricism. - 80
The New York Times
A delicate wisp of a film with a surprisingly sharp sting. - 75
New York Daily News
The result is a quietly simple fable that hits you hardest after it's over. - 70
Village Voice
Oneiric as it is, though, Tony Takitani conveys a powerfully tangible sense of loss and loneliness. In both concrete and existential terms, it's a film that dwells on what the dead leave behind and how the living carry on. - 70
The New Republic
Not many of us, I think, would want to see many films made this way, possibly not one more, but this one is an intriguing glance at the director-as-god, deigning to treat human frailty with imperial sway, assuming that his art justifies this slender material. - 60
TV Guide Magazine
This minimalist meditation on loneliness and loss is so spare and drained of color that it seems always on the verge of fading into invisibility.
