Nice little story

Rating: 10/10 (6 September 2004)

A unique movie! It is so rare and so interesting when it is done well. Two fish out of water meet up and consider romance. At the very least they have the opportunity to live Japanese with another person they can each relate to. It's also great (and extremely difficult) to portray the feeling of being in an entirely foreign land where you just don't fit in. Well...Japan is entirely foreign, but strangely American at the same time. It's American capitalism on crack. Both Scarlet Johannson and Bill Murray did a great job. The direction was outstanding. The camera work was probably my favorite part of the whole thing. It was a good story. I'm glad it was told. Thank Allah it was not a contrived pile of dung like so many stories with a budding romance.