Drama

Tonî Takitani

2005
★ 7.2 / 10
When technical illustrator Tony Takitani asks his wife to resist her all-consuming obsession for designer clothes, the consequences are tragic.
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Reviews
★★★★★
"Tony Takitani" is the first full length adaptation of a Haruki Murakami tale (the IMDb message board provides a link to an English translation of the story) and it beautifully translates his ethereal prose themes to visuals. There's his characteristic isolat...
★★★★★
I'm a big Murakami fan and was fortunate to see Issey Ogata live in Chicago a decade ago. When I read this story, about six weeks before seeing the movie, it struck me as an atypical Murakami story, but then I'm not sure what's typical of his work, anymore. It...
★★★★★
*whew* It's been a while since I've been this intoxicated by a film... at least not since February's Nobody Knows. Tony Takitani is a beautiful poem to loneliness. The eponymous character is a quintessential loner. As the prologue informs us: His father, a W...
★★★★★
Director Jun Ichikawa demonstrates a uniquely idiosyncratic film-making style somewhat reminiscent of Yasujiro Ozu's work in his constant use of lengthy medium shots shot at waist level, as well as a certain narrative sensibility that focuses on elliptical epi...
★★★★★
This film, minimalist in the best possible sense, is a lyrical study of isolation and loss. Tony Takitani (Issei Ogata) grows up the loner kid of a jazz-playing, loner father. Like his father, Tony masters an art, drawing, and eventually becomes very successfu...
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