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Tony Takitani
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 22 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 13 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama | Foreign
Written by:
Jun Ichikawa
Haruki Murakami (novel)
Directed by: Jun Ichikawa
Release Date:
Theatrical: July 29, 2005
DVD: January 10, 2006
Running Time: 75 minutes, Color
Origin: Japan
Language(s): Japanese (with English subtitles)
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Yumi Endo, Rie Miyazawa, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Issei Ogata, and Shinohara Takahumi
Alone and self-sufficient since childhood, Tony shuns emotions as illogical and immature. After finding his true vocation as a technical illustrator, he becomes fascinated with Eiko, whom he marries. His life changes, he feels vibrantly alive, and for the first time, he understands and fears loneliness. But when Eiko's all consuming obsession for designer clothes ends in tragedy, Tony finds himself alone again, sitting in his wife's closet, gazing at her treasured couture pieces, the whispering ghosts of her soul. Finally, Tony places an ad in the paper searching for a woman who fits Eiko's measurements perfectly. (Strand Releasing)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
The movie's underlying theme is the complex relationship between objects and memories, worked out through a taut, compelling story and superbly understated acting. Ryuichi Sakamoto composed the atmospheric score.
Read Full Review >New York Post V.A. Musetto
No adventurous filmgoer will want to miss Tony Takitani.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
It's a quiet dream of a movie, a vision of loneliness giving way to love, then to loneliness again; it's like "Vertigo" remade in a sedately haunted style of Japanese lyricism.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
An exquisite film, as elegant and precise as an impeccably cut diamond. It's small in scale but wholly mesmerizing, holding us captive as it demonstrates how much enveloping richness can be conveyed with a minimalist style.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Marc Mohan
A haunting, melancholy fable, Tony Takitani is the kind of film that could seem tedious from a mere description. Approached with the right mind-set, however, it's a hypnotic mood piece on love and loss, one that knows -- at 75 minutes -- not to overstay its welcome.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
The hues are so muted you may remember this as a black-and-white film, but its emotions are as vivid as primary colors.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Noel Murray
Movies can't exactly replicate the feeling of reading a book, but Jun Ichikawa's adaptation of Haruki Murakami's short story Tony Takitani comes remarkably close.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
It's a film for specialized tastes, quiet, delicate. But it suits those tastes beautifully.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
This is one of those movies where you either give yourself up to its rhythms or give up entirely. It took me a few minutes to get used to it, but I found Tony Takitani absorbing and loaded with emotional power.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Ella Taylor
This gossamer work is one of the loveliest examples of minimalist cinema I've seen in a long time.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Manohla Dargis
A delicate wisp of a film with a surprisingly sharp sting.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Teresa Wiltz
A marvelously moody meditation, beautiful to look at and beautiful to ponder as the camera slowly pans from one scene to the next, framing life as still life.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marrit Ingman
It recommends itself best to viewers who can appreciate its novelty and roll with the risks it takes.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
The result is a quietly simple fable that hits you hardest after it's over.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
The film itself is also a beautiful work of art, exquisitely framed and precisely envisioned.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Tony Takitani, fablelike and beautiful, requires a certain amount of patience, but its small, peculiar charms work their way into your soul.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Dennis Lim
Oneiric as it is, though, Tony Takitani conveys a powerfully tangible sense of loss and loneliness. In both concrete and existential terms, it's a film that dwells on what the dead leave behind and how the living carry on.
Read Full Review >The New Republic Stanley Kauffmann
Not many of us, I think, would want to see many films made this way, possibly not one more, but this one is an intriguing glance at the director-as-god, deigning to treat human frailty with imperial sway, assuming that his art justifies this slender material.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
This minimalist meditation on loneliness and loss is so spare and drained of color that it seems always on the verge of fading into invisibility.
Read Full Review >Variety Derek Elley
Ultimately, this is a striking-looking film -- consciously recalling the paintings of Edward Hopper in its architectural use of space -- which, like its protag, is a little short on real feeling.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Eric Campos
You really have to be in the right mood to sit through Tony Takitani. You have to be ready to take in a thoroughly depressing story that moves...very...slowly.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 8.0 (out of 10) based on 13 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Jabez M. gave it a10:
This film, while admittedly short on narrative and action, has some of the most beautiful and haunting images I have ever seen in a film. They remain with me more than a year after viewing. With the proper mindset and expectations, Tony Takitani is richly rewarding.
Stephen Q. gave it a10:
A Must see for the open-minded. A slow, engaging, thoughtful and emotionally fulfiled film. It relies on atmosphere, setting and color to really imprint the emotions of each scene. If you sit through it and pay attention, you'll look back and feel impacted. I was.
Martin S. gave it a4:
The very definition of meandering. The writer ran out of material 5 minutes into the movie. A terrible dissapointment.
Matt A. gave it a10:
Beautiful. The San Francisco Chronicle was right: this film is a visual poem and unlike anything you've ever seen. Director Ichikawa executes perfectly what he sets out to do and the result is one of the finest films of the year. I would take this film over any of the best picture noms any day.
Douglas D. gave it a9:
slow, but interesting and reflective. Something one remembers.
Kirsten gave it a5:
An exercise in existentialist angst...I lost patience with it. And the director's habit of going from one scene to another by panning to the right of frame became maddening to me.
Myriam gave it a10:
Loneliness and love. How deep could be the suffering, to move people to do strange beahvior. And come back.
