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Tony Takitani (2004)

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88

Average Rating: 7.4/10
Reviews Counted: 52
Fresh: 46 | Rotten: 6

Despite its deceptive wispiness, this delicately lovely and melancholy film about loneliness has a haunting power.

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Average Rating: 8.1/10
Critic Reviews: 18
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 0

Despite its deceptive wispiness, this delicately lovely and melancholy film about loneliness has a haunting power.

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Average Rating: 3.9/5
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A man who has lived a life of emotional isolation discovers the dark side of falling in love in this drama from Japanese filmmaker Jun Ichikawa. Tony Takitani (Issey Ogata) is the son of a Japanese musician with a passion for jazz who spent most of World War II in Shanghai, and was later sentenced to a stretch in prison following the war. Tony was named in honor of an American serviceman who befriended his father, but his name also earned him the suspicion of his classmates, and he had few close

Jan 10, 2006

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All Critics (59) | Top Critics (19) | Fresh (50) | Rotten (7) | DVD (7)

An ethereal modern fable without a moral, Tony Takatani seeps into the soul and lingers. For filmgoers in search of a quietly absorbing escape, it might be the perfect holiday-movie antidote.

December 8, 2005 Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Though it falters as a narrative, Tony Takitani sticks in the mind with its poetic contemplativeness.

November 4, 2005 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle
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Like a cultivated orchid, the delicate product of careful attention and an appreciation for fleeting beauty.

October 21, 2005 Full Review Source: Seattle Times
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It's a marvelously moody meditation, beautiful to look at and beautiful to ponder as the camera slowly pans from one scene to the next, framing life as still life.

October 13, 2005 Full Review Source: Washington Post
Washington Post
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It's a film for specialized tastes, quiet, delicate. But it suits those tastes beautifully.

September 29, 2005 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
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Tony Takitani, fablelike and beautiful, requires a certain amount of patience, but its small, peculiar charms work their way into your soul.

September 8, 2005
Philadelphia Inquirer
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Scarcely satisfies, yet it lingers -- limpidity of image along with imperceptible epiphanies

September 1, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion
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What makes this documentary stand out is the manner in which it mimics the aloof poetry of the film.

September 25, 2007 Full Review Source: Film4
Film4

Ichikawa brilliantly captures Murakami's blend of whimsy, irony and melancholy, while finding intelligent and inventive ways to convert the author's verbal idiosyncrasies to a visual medium.

June 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Film4
Film4

This could reverently be called a model of minimalism, but I am more inclined to call it dull as dishwater.

March 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Journal International
Film Journal International

Jun Ichikawa's adaptation of a short story by celebrated Japanese novelist Haruki Murakama is a quiet ode to isolation, loss, and our human desire to love and be loved.

December 14, 2006
Reel.com

Filme de construção poética e delicada, encanta pelo tocante estudo de personagens e por discutir, através de seus quadros reveladores, temas complexos como a solidão, a natureza da memória, fetiches e obsessões.

June 26, 2006
Cinema em Cena

An impressive achievement.

June 21, 2006 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Jun Ichikawa's slight, lovely little drama understands the pleasure of seeing, using many quiet, patient takes to absorb its delicate visuals.

April 21, 2006 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid
Combustible Celluloid

embodies that lose-lose conundrum we all face: loneliness is painful, but finding and then losing love is just as bad

January 31, 2006 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com
Filmcritic.com

Ichikawa evokes the heady and suffocating effect of the past playing irrevocable catch-up with itself.

January 14, 2006 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine

Audience Reviews for Tony Takitani

I couldn't imagine how one of Murakami's stories could be captured on film. But I must say, that Jun Ichikawa did a great job! I loved how the characters seemed to belong in the clean and simple surroundings they were in. It was consistent with the way Murakami describes his characters and their surroundings. I don't know man, I'm not a critic, I'm a fan, and Ichikawa can count on my support :)
December 28, 2007
Saxia

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An extremely quiet movie, so if you're into action, this isn't for you. This one captures best the mix of loneliness, discovered love, and missed opportunities for connection -- all hallmarks of Haruki Murakami's fiction. The very last telephone hang-up touches the very core of Murakami's vision of modern life and love. Although this film is less "magical" than Murakami can be at the height of his stories, there is at least quirkiness which could easliy turn magically into something surreal. Good examples are the car accident that results from an obsession with clothing, or the empty closet dream sequence. Putting Murakami on film with any kind of truth to the text must be a daunting task.
December 19, 2007
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