They bond over an evening in Tokyo, where they experience the city nightlife together. Bob and Charlotte frequently cross paths in the hotel and eventually introduce themselves to each other in the hotel bar.Īfter several encounters, when John is on assignment outside Tokyo, Charlotte invites Bob into the city to meet some local friends. She bumps into Charlotte and John, gushing over photography sessions she has previously done with him. They both struggle with additional bouts of jet lag and culture shock in Tokyo and pass the time loitering around the hotel.Ĭharlotte is repelled by a vacuous Hollywood actress named Kelly, who is also at the hotel promoting a film. Charlotte is feeling similarly disenchanted as she questions her marriage and is anxious about her future.
Charlotte, another American staying at the hotel, is a young Yale graduate in philosophy who is accompanying her husband John while he works as a celebrity photographer. He stays at the upscale Park Hyatt Tokyo and is miserable due to problems within his 25-year marriage and a midlife crisis.
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Other accolades won include three Golden Globe Awards and three British Academy Film Awards.īob Harris is a fading American movie star who arrives in Tokyo to appear in lucrative advertisements for Suntory whisky. At the 76th Academy Awards, Lost in Translation won Coppola the Best Original Screenplay, and the film was also nominated for Best Picture, Best Director (Coppola), and Best Actor (Murray). Critics praised the performances of Murray and Johansson, as well as the writing and direction of Coppola minor criticism was given to the film's depiction of Japan. Lost in Translation premiered on August 29, 2003, at the Telluride Film Festival on Septemto major critical and commercial success. After 10 weeks of editing, Coppola sold distribution rights for the United States and Canada to Focus Features, and the company promoted the film by generating positive word of mouth before its theatrical release. The film's director of photography, Lance Acord, used available light as often as possible and many Japanese places of business and public areas were used as locations for shooting. The screenplay was short and Coppola often allowed a significant amount of improvisation during filming. Coppola kept a flexible schedule during filming with a small crew and minimal equipment. Principal photography began on September 29, 2002, and lasted 27 days. When Murray finally arrived, Coppola described feelings of significant relief. While Murray eventually agreed to play the part, he did not sign a contract Coppola spent a quarter of the film's $4 million budget without knowing if he would actually appear for shooting.
Coppola envisioned Murray playing the role of Bob Harris from the beginning and tried to recruit him for up to a year, relentlessly sending him telephone messages and letters. She began forming a story about two characters experiencing a "romantic melancholy" in the Park Hyatt Tokyo, where she stayed while promoting her first feature film, the 1999 drama The Virgin Suicides. Further analysis by critics and scholars has focused on the film's defiance of mainstream narrative conventions and its atypical depiction of romance.Ĭoppola started writing the film after spending time in Tokyo and becoming fond of the city. The film explores themes of alienation and disconnection against a backdrop of cultural displacement in Japan. Giovanni Ribisi and Anna Faris also feature. There, he befriends another estranged American named Charlotte, a young woman and recent college graduate played by Scarlett Johansson. Bill Murray stars as Bob Harris, a fading American movie star who is having a midlife crisis when he travels to Tokyo to promote Suntory whisky. Lost in Translation is a 2003 romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Sofia Coppola.
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