Lost in Japan, in culture, in language, in themselves.

Rating: 8/10 (2 July 2006)

What a refreshing movie that presents another perspective in experiencing a cultural crash to bring along the language as an ultimate communication tool. Or yet, can we probably make it without even speaking a word in that foreign language? As an ESL instructor, I love to show this movie to my students as a vehicle for them to value how important is to learn a second language while applying the cultural context as an important complement to understanding meanings. However, something else goes beyond linguistics in terms of feelings, emotions, and psychological crisis between two people from different generations in a bonding and desperate self discovery. Well, the end will let us think and my students always talk about it with interest and lots of words.