Wanted to like it, but really awful

Rating: 3/10 (23 October 2003)

After all the glowing reviews, and several business trips of my own to Japan, I really wanted to like this movie and couldn't wait to see it. Although the film really made me feel the "fog" of visiting Japan from a business person's point of view, and the emptiness of the characters, it was totally a bore!
It appears to be another example of folks feeling they are supposed to like it because it received such glowing reviews from those "in the know", but are afraid they will be perceived as uncultured to admit the movie was a totally boring waste of two hours. I kept waiting for it to get more interesting, or at least funnier... but no luck, sorry.