Basically a perfect movie

Rating: 8/10 (3 September 2004)

This is one of the best movies I have seen in years. 10/10. It´s a wonderful and sweet love-story. A good comedy, drama and all that. The two lead actors are great. The dialogue is very good. It´s everything cinema should be about. It seems to pay homage to Jarmusch masterpieces such as "Down By Law" although Lost in Translation is very different though. It´s so much like a trip to Tokyo. Not bad for the price of a DVD or a cinema ticket. And there´s no degrading sex-scenes or superflous emotions in the relations described. Everything is very credible like, say, in "Good Will Hunting". The examination of Buddhism´s role in Japanese culture is also very clever. The Americans basically doesn´t have a clue what Buddhism is about. The relations in this movie reminded me so much of my own relations to people. As another viewer wrote: "Isolation finds an expression in love."