Tony Takitani Comments

  • Sidney 2022-03-25 09:01:22

    Combining the multi-person narrative of the novel, the third-person narration, and the introduction of the first-person lines, this kind of relationship between film and literature is no longer suitable for Japanese. Move the camera horizontally, tile the life and cut the scene, and split the movie scene. After the prehistory is the loneliness of human beings, focusing on something, projecting desires on specific spiritual or material things that they love, reducing worldly relationships, and...

  • Angie 2022-03-25 09:01:22

    One star for the mysterious cinematic practice. It seems to be a closed-loop from silent film to sound film, but it uses the whole process of narration and music to express something like a silent film - but it is already full of silent films. As a Chinese, I can't help but think of the "shadow puppets" and "foreign films" in traditional folk art. The use of film, a different art, to implement literature, and to reflect the shadow of Quyi, is of course interesting. There are so many so-called...

  • Jayde 2022-03-25 09:01:22

    I like this kind of feeling - the restrained monologue of Nishijima Hidetoshi, the expressionless face with the tail in a shape (a certain angle is similar to Haruki Murakami?), the dress of Miyazawa Rie, with Professor Sakamoto's piano keys, Murakami's unique experience of urban men and women (and historical loneliness before and after the Pacific War) makes this unique story of loneliness full of atmosphere. The mood of laziness and loneliness is like a wisp of white mist that engraves the...

  • Ulises 2022-03-25 09:01:22

    I'm very disappointed, because I liked this film Haruki Murakami watched. Who would have thought that the content would be like a novel with a stream of consciousness and no sense of coherence, so that kind of rhythm could not be reflected at...

  • May 2022-03-25 09:01:22

    16-07-01 Adapted from a short story by Haruki Murakami. The rhythm is surprisingly slow, except for the two protagonists, basically no other characters appear, clean and...

  • Beth 2022-03-24 09:03:39

    Ichikawa Jun + Sakamoto Ryuichi + Murakami Haruki, the effect is amazing, basically relying on a single panning lens to transition to the dark place to complete all the subsections, editing, and more details are supplemented by Nishijima Hidetoshi's emotionless narration, and even the shape of the tail. They are all leaning on Haruki Murakami, which is almost a perfect form of novel adaptation. Although the whole movie is in motion, the look and feel is extremely...

  • Reanna 2022-03-24 09:03:39

    When I listened to the original sound of Sakamoto's work a year ago, I often think of the melody of solitude. Can you still watch my loneliness awake when I'm sleeping in the dark and knocking on those dummy keys...

  • Toby 2022-03-24 09:03:39

    Like a documentary with nothing but narration removed. The music is...

  • Davon 2022-03-24 09:03:39

    I erased all memory of you, I sold all your clothes, I burned all your records, but I was swallowed by loneliness. A large number of lateral transition shots and narrations, almost no panorama, coupled with the soundtrack of Sakamoto Ryuichi, are like prose. 【China Film Archive·Universal Essence...

  • Herta 2022-03-24 09:03:39

    It was aimed at Haruki Murakami, and it really was very Haruki Murakami. Love the piano pieces from start to finish. the story is...

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.