Very true ! GREAT !

Rating: 9/10 (24 January 2007)

Loved it !!! I live in Japan and it happened that I was in a trip to Hollywood when I first saw the movie. Back then, I was may be since a year in Japan. Well, it hit me. It expressed everything I felt and sometimes still feel. For the first time while watching the movie I felt like being understood. It ain't easy to survive in Tokyo for a foreigner. You really feel like "lost in translation". Everything Copolla expressed seemed true to me. no exaggerations. !! a Must see. I also very much liked when sometimes no translation was giving when Japanese was spoken...it leaves you thirsty to know and kinda lost... Also when one could understand Japanese, you could see how the interpreter did not tell Bob all the Japanese director was saying. He gets it but has no ability to challenge that or really understand what is being said. you just feel you can't rely 100 on yourself in that country, if you don't speak the language well and have a minimum understanding of the culture.