Tony Takitani

Tony Takitani

  • Director: Jun Ichikawa
  • Writer: Jun Ichikawa,Haruki Murakami
  • Countries of origin: Japan
  • Language: Japanese
  • Release date: January 29, 2005
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: 東尼瀧谷
  • "Toni ー Takiya" is a 76-minute drama film produced by Wilco Pictures. The film , written and directed by Jun Ichikawa, starring Issei Ogata, Issei Ogata , Rie Miyazawa , Hidetoshi Nishijima , etc., was released in Japan on January 29, 2005.
    The film is adapted from the short story of the same name byむらかみはるき. It tells the story of the self-isolating Toni Takiya who feels the warmth of his family after marriage, but his wife is killed by a morbid desire to shop   .

    Details

    • Release date January 29, 2005
    • Filming locations Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
    • Production companies Breath, Wilco Co.

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $129,783

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $1,765

    Gross worldwide

    $556,268

    Movie reviews

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    • By Leone 2022-03-25 09:01:22

      Loneliness plus loneliness equals loneliness, more than two loneliness

      This is an extremely stream-of-consciousness movie. It is a mixture of Haruki Murakami's loneliness and Sakamoto Ryuichi's loneliness. The addition of loneliness and loneliness equals loneliness, but it does not mean two loneliness, but an excess. It's not suitable for watching in such a deep night, and people's emotions are very serious. When the physical depression and loneliness, the collision triggers psychological repercussions, such emotions are very depressed. After watching, I was...

    • By Rahsaan 2022-03-25 09:01:22

      solitude

      This is a movie that expresses loneliness.

      The movie I watched because of Ryuichi Sakamoto's "Solitude" liked Tony's saying "loneliness is a prison". Once his father was put in prison and tortured. Tony never went to prison, but he spent most of his life in prison. Although he once said, "I don't feel alone." When all the clothes and records are gone, he'll really be alone.

      The narration method of the film is also very unique. Most of the narration and the key sentences in the...

    • By Estevan 2022-03-25 09:01:22

      buy buy buy!

      Saw this 2004 movie in 2019. Japan 15 years ago was just as materialistic and lonely as China is today.

      In recent years, I have sometimes been an office worker, and sometimes I have been working at home. The wife is basically always at home, whether or not she takes on some projects.

      My hobby is to buy limited edition electronics. Note, limited edition electronics. In other words, it has basically no collectible value.

      My wife's preferences, skin care products, good things,...

    • By Jarrod 2022-03-25 09:01:22

      "I perceive love, but never reach it"

      Tony Takiya is the protagonist's name. Adapted from the novel of the same name by Haruki Murakami. The protagonist who was born alone and the heroine who is addicted to shopping are all very dramatic elements, but the film of more than an hour did not piece together these elements into a drama with ups and downs. The flow method tells the story.

      Loneliness is the eternal theme of human beings. In the front of the film, a particularly cold montage lens is used to build Tony's...

    • By Aletha 2022-03-25 09:01:22

      why are we lonely

      As far as the movie goes, I wouldn't say it's a good movie. Because the director lost a bit of himself in the film, he was too persistent in trying to present the loneliness depicted by Haruki Murakami, which made the film somewhat formalized, and the large amount of narration made me feel that the original narrative charm of the film image was lost. The director should be a book fan of Murakami, so he is too eager to realize his world, and lacks his own creation as a film...

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    • By Brionna 2022-04-23 07:04:46

      Sakamoto Ryuichi's...

    • By Stefan 2022-04-23 07:04:46

      The imageization of Haruki Murakami's works has a lot of blank space. There is no panorama, and all the shots seem to be stuck in a small specific space, which is oppressive and breathless. When the movie started, it was like a shadow puppet show since the silent era of silent films. I just felt that the image was passing little by little in front of my eyes. With the narration of the melancholy and lonely male voice, Sakamoto Ryuichi's repeated babbling soundtrack, like an experience The...

    • By Damion 2022-04-23 07:04:46

      Adapted from Haruki Murakami's short story "Tony Falls", but the interaction between the original and the film is rather dull. The film almost copied the text structure of the novel, and completed the paragraph transitions in the movement of the camera from the left side of the painting to the right of the painting, the director may want to build a kind of text with Haruki Murakami and the music of Sakamoto Ryuichi. Qi's image rhythm, but this overly neat, overly formatted division is somewhat...

    • By Lucie 2022-04-23 07:04:46

      The best shot is the swaying tree outside the...

    • By Al 2022-04-23 07:04:46

      All words lost their meaning and were swallowed up by the desert of the city. Haruki Murakami's...

    Movie plot

    Before the outbreak of World War II, Tony's father, Saburo Takiya, was forced to leave his hometown and travel to China because of some minor troubles. Soon, Japan invaded China in an all-round way, and then attacked Pearl Harbor at the end of 1941. Because of the ambitions of Japanese fascist militarism, the whole of Asia was deeply mired in the quagmire of World War II.
    In these war-torn and turbulent times, Saburo Takiya lives a life...
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    Evaluation action

    "Tony Valley" is indeed a movie adapted from a novel by むらかみはるき, and it can be regarded as a movie made by むらかみはるき. The composition of the film is tranquil, the characters are quiet, Hidetoshi Nishijima's narration, Issei Ogata Issei Ogata's pot-covered head, an old boy appearance, and even the slightly morbid shopping behavior of the heroine Rie Miyazawa are all elements of むらかみはるき novels. Because "Tony Waterfall" is really too much...
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    Movie 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.

    • Tony Takitani, Shozaburo Takitani: She was like a bird taking flight for a distant land...