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Japanese Story

  • 2003
  • R
  • 1 Std. 46 Min.
IMDb-BEWERTUNG
6,8/10
6907
IHRE BEWERTUNG
Toni Collette in Japanese Story (2003)
Against the background of an Australian desert, Sandy, a geologist, and Hiromitsu, a Japanese businessman, play out a story of human inconsequence in the face of the blistering universe. The end of the journey leaves no one capable of going back to where they started from.
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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuAgainst the background of an Australian desert, Sandy, a geologist, and Hiromitsu, a Japanese businessman, play out a story of human inconsequence in the face of the blistering universe. The... Alles lesenAgainst the background of an Australian desert, Sandy, a geologist, and Hiromitsu, a Japanese businessman, play out a story of human inconsequence in the face of the blistering universe. The end of the journey leaves no one capable of going back to where they started from.Against the background of an Australian desert, Sandy, a geologist, and Hiromitsu, a Japanese businessman, play out a story of human inconsequence in the face of the blistering universe. The end of the journey leaves no one capable of going back to where they started from.

  • Regie
    • Sue Brooks
  • Drehbuch
    • Alison Tilson
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Toni Collette
    • Gotaro Tsunashima
    • Lynette Curran
  • Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro
  • IMDb-BEWERTUNG
    6,8/10
    6907
    IHRE BEWERTUNG
    • Regie
      • Sue Brooks
    • Drehbuch
      • Alison Tilson
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • Toni Collette
      • Gotaro Tsunashima
      • Lynette Curran
    • 135Benutzerrezensionen
    • 58Kritische Rezensionen
    • 73Metascore
  • Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro
    • Auszeichnungen
      • 20 Gewinne & 13 Nominierungen insgesamt

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    Toni Collette
    Toni Collette
    • Sandy Edwards
    Gotaro Tsunashima
    • Hiromitsu Tachibana
    Lynette Curran
    Lynette Curran
    • Mum
    Matthew Dyktynski
    • Bill Baird
    Yumiko Tanaka
    • Yukiko Tachibana
    Kate Atkinson
    Kate Atkinson
    • Jackie
    Bill Young
    Bill Young
    • Jimmy Smithers
    Reg Evans
    Reg Evans
    • Bloke in Row Boat
    George Shevtsov
    George Shevtsov
    • James (lawyer)
    Justine Clarke
    Justine Clarke
    • Jane
    Igor Sas
    • Fraser
    Mike Frencham
    • Blake
    John Howard
    John Howard
    • Richards
    Phil Bennett
    • Barman
    Heath Bergersen
    • Petrol Bloke
    Jules Hutchinson
    • Canteen Worker
    • (as Jules Hutchison)
    Kuni Hashimoto
    Kuni Hashimoto
    • Japanese Translator
    Mark McAullay
    • Watson
    • Regie
      • Sue Brooks
    • Drehbuch
      • Alison Tilson
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    Benutzerrezensionen135

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    6corinne08

    I have mixed feelings about this movie

    I think it's one of those memorable movies you'll think about for a long time, but it also seemed to go on for a long time while you're watching it. I think Americans aren't all that comfortable with the very leisurely pace of a lot of foreign films, and that may have been part of the problem -- but there's only so long you can watch someone expressing an emotion before you want to say "I get it, I get it -- can we move on to what happens next?" The plot involves a headstrong young Japanese businessman's visit to the most desolate part of Australia -- a rather tough geologist played by Toni Collette (Muriel's Wedding) is his tour guide. He doesn't quite understand how different Australia is from Japan, and Collette has her hands full trying to chauffeur him around. The movie centers around the relationship that develops between these two very different people, set in the mind-bogglingly desolate Australian outback.

    If your idea of a great movie involves car chases, this is definitely not the movie for you. If you like slower and more nuanced movies, then this one is definitely worth seeing.
    noralee

    Gender and Cultural Topsy Turvy in the Outback

    "Japanese Story" is a fascinating exploration of gender and cultural roles, with a more incisive take on the contrasts than "Lost in Translation," let alone than in the simplicity of "The Last Samurai."

    The Australian outback is a harsher but beautiful landscape of blokes and sheilas than the Manhattan of "Sex and the City" but it brings into relief similar questions of expectations of guys and gals in life and sex.

    Toni Colette's "Sandy" is one tough geologist required to guide Gotaro Tsunashima to his father's company's environment-destroying mining businesses. Each suspiciously views the other through narrow stereotypical lenses that block out the complexities of their real lives and potential.

    They very gradually adapt to each other, opening each other up to new experiences in quite unexpected ways, even though their language and life communication is still limited. She is the shaggy, physical, confident one; he is the smooth, intellectual, diffident one. "Sandy" is aggressive in a way much more typical of males in U.S. movies, while "Tachibana" is redolent of the farm wife in "The Bridges of Madison County."

    The third act is even more startling in its catharsis for "Sandy" as she finds inner strengths and vulnerabilities to deal with her responsibilities across the cultural chasm.
    8=G=

    The less you know about this film, the better.

    It would be impossible to say anything substantially meaningful about "Japanese Story" without spoiling the film for those who have not seen it. Suffice it to say, it's set in Australia and works with a an Aussie woman (Colette) and a Japanese man (Hiromitsu) to build slowly to an emotionally potent situation - a series of moments - and then lingers in the denouement allowing the audience to savor the emotions evoked. For some, those feelings may be nil. For others they may be powerful and overwhelming. Personally, I wept. Objectively, the film, about a woman by women, is well crafted and Colette's performance is outstanding. The film deserves high marks in all aspects from cinematography to music to casting, etc. However, when the closing credits roll, your experience will have been as unique as yourself. And whatever that experience is, it will be less if you know the outcome in advance. (B+)
    Buddy-51

    unexpected plot twists make movie work

    The best thing about `Japanese Story,' an Australian film directed by Sue Brooks and set almost entirely in the Outback, is its unpredictability. Just as you begin to think that the story, written by Alison Tilson, is headed in one particular direction, it does an amazing about-face and leads us down an entirely different, utterly unexpected narrative path.

    The movie starts off as a fairly standard romantic comedy, involving two strangers who don't like each other very much yet who are forced to spend an inordinate amount of time together. Sandy is a geologist whose company, against her will and better judgment, has asked her to escort an important Japanese businessman through the wilds of the Australian desert on a sightseeing tour. The film even begins to seem a bit like a landlocked `Swept Away' for awhile, as these two headstrong people – he a Japanese traditionalist with male chauvinistic tendencies and she a no-nonsense, freethinking, independent woman (but both filled with doubts and insecurities beneath the surface) – find themselves stranded in a hostile and remote environment, fighting for survival. But then the first of the film's numerous plot reversals kicks in and we find ourselves in an entirely different situation altogether.

    I certainly don't want to spoil anyone's experience of this film by revealing just what those plot twists are, so I will merely state that the film, in the second half, becomes a fairly profound meditation on the precarious nature of life and the almost lightning-paced speed with which tragedy can intervene to bring our worlds crashing down around us. Toni Collette is heartbreaking as the feisty yet warmhearted Sandy and Gotaro Tsunashima is both tender and stoic as the man from an exotic culture with whom she eventually falls in love.

    That, of course, is the predictable part. But if you think you know where this story is going, you will be pleasantly surprised at how wrong you will be.
    10Adetunji

    Outstanding and Beautiful - Australian Haiku

    This is, apparently, a love it or hate it movie. As is the case with such films those on one side have a hard time understanding the view of the opposite. I am fully in that camp, I thought this film was stark and beautiful--as moving in its silence and mundane moments as it was illuminating. For those who say there is no plot, well I clearly saw a different film, there is more story and intention in simple small details as there are in a whole series of other films. Toni Collette was amazing and Gotaro Tsunashima was perfect, capturing the emotional compression and exploration of his character with clarity and skill. In a film full of striking absolutely believable and full moments -- the furtive exploratory glances as the two leads drive through the desert, and Toni's fascination with Gotaro's nearly hairless arms say so much about the characters', their history, their assumptions, their prejudices. Incredibly moving, shattering emotionally, and ultimately deeply profound. A haiku-like meditation on living and sharing--I loved it.

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    • Patzer
      When the QANTAS jet to Kyoto leaves, it is actually leaving from the Perth domestic airport. The international terminal, where it would really leave from, and the Darling Ranges to the east, are clearly visible in the background.
    • Crazy Credits
      Our thanks to the people of Nyamal, Ngarluma, Yinjibarndi, Bunjima and Nyiparli Nations.
    • Verbindungen
      Featured in Inside Japanese Story: an evening with the film-makers (2004)
    • Soundtracks
      ABC News Theme
      (1986)

      Written by Tony Ansell (as T. Ansell) and Peter Wall (as P. Wall)

      Published by ABC Music Publishing and

      Kindly reproduced with the permission of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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    • Erscheinungsdatum
      • 25. September 2003 (Australien)
    • Herkunftsland
      • Australien
    • Offizielle Standorte
      • Palace Films
      • Screenwest (Australia)
    • Sprachen
      • Englisch
      • Japanisch
    • Auch bekannt als
      • Японская история
    • Drehorte
      • Perth Airport, Perth, Western Australia, Australien
    • Produktionsfirmen
      • Australian Film Finance Corporation (AFFC)
      • Fortissimo Films
      • Gecko Films Pty. Ltd.
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    • Budget
      • 5.740.000 $ (geschätzt)
    • Bruttoertrag in den USA und Kanada
      • 647.054 $
    • Eröffnungswochenende in den USA und in Kanada
      • 23.962 $
      • 4. Jan. 2004
    • Weltweiter Bruttoertrag
      • 4.098.613 $
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      1 Stunde 46 Minuten
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      • Dolby Digital
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