Lost in Translation

Japan, United Kingdom and United States of America, 2003

Film
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Two lost souls visiting Tokyo — the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial — find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other’s company, away from their lives in America.

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Credits

director

Sofia Coppola

costume design

Nancy Steiner

producer

Francis Ford Coppola

Ross Katz

Sofia Coppola

production company

American Zoetrope

Elemental Films

Focus Features

TFC

production design

Anne Ross

K.K. Barrett

screenplay

Sofia Coppola

Duration

01:42:00

Production places
Japan United Kingdom United States of America
Production dates
2003

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

tmdb-movie-153

Language

English

Subject categories

Comedy

Drama

Romance

TMDB-Movie

153

Wikidata

Q107270

Collected

184 times

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