Tony Takitani Comments

  • Macey 2022-04-22 07:01:53

    Narrative style, actor performance, emotional tone, character dialogue, background music, picture colors, costumes, and scenery. . . . Obviously, Ichikawa is deliberately "Murakami" this time~~As a lonely marginal urbanite, he can always see his shadow in TONY. . ....

  • Dexter 2022-04-22 07:01:53

    life is loneliness, happiness and of course....also...

  • Nick 2022-04-22 07:01:53

    Looking back, this one is the highlight of Murakami's work, expressing the meaninglessness of life without nonsense, but you still have to put it into action. Both the movie and the soundtrack are very...

  • Megane 2022-04-22 07:01:53

    If Nishijima could read all of Murakami's novels once and then put out a...

  • Eloy 2022-04-22 07:01:53

    Simple dialogue, simple shots, simple soundtrack, and simple combination make people feel not...

  • Albert 2022-04-22 07:01:53

    From being alone to not being alone to being afraid of being alone again to losing not being alone to having double loneliness to returning to loneliness that looked like the first loneliness but not the same to cruelly closed to looking no longer alone to loneliness that seemed...

  • Devon 2022-04-22 07:01:53

    As an excellent medium, Hideo Nishishima's narration accurately connects the characters and viewers in the play. It is straightforward, and the characters in the play can also examine and express themselves from the perspective of the first person. This is a great way of handling it. Miyazawa Rie's gestures are so beautiful! Pause foot...

  • Eugenia 2022-04-22 07:01:53

    The piano soundtrack is clear and transparent, but the film itself is slightly...

  • Jeffery 2022-04-22 07:01:53

    Murakami's original is better!...

  • Bernadette 2022-04-21 09:03:33

    Perhaps there is not much difference between movies and novels, but the biggest difference is that one is a vivid three-dimensional use of sound, light and color to present a story, an emotion in a context, and a philosophy. And this film is flat, completely verbal, and the tone is so uniform that every scene and shot is like a pile of text descriptions. A novel with three paragraphs strung together by one person, his father and the loneliness of childhood, the imprisonment of love and loss of...

Extended Reading

Tony Takitani quotes

  • Narrator: In that place, the boundary between life and death...

    Tony Takitani, Shozaburo Takitani: Was as slim as a single strand of hair.

  • Narrator: He found his home had been destroyed in the firebombing, and his parents and his only brother, lost to the same fate. In other words, he was then... utterly alone in the world.