If you like hackneyed jokes about how oriental people pronounce English then you may like this film. Me however I left those sorts of things behind in the 70's.

This is the dullest film I have seen in a long long time.

Nothing happens.

There is a story there about how a bored wife who has graduated recently is stuck in Tokyo and meets up with a Actor who i couldn't decide wether he wanted an affair or not but was driven to it by the boredom around him. And thats it.

As an insight into Japanese life it falls well short of the mark to as I thought that most Japanese people would probably be insulted by the insinuation that they are all business men, game heads or prostitutes who pronounce rip 'lip' (If i said it in the street it would be racist).

It took me two attempts to finally watch it all the way through and expecting a big finale I was terribly dissapointed. I got the impression that Sophia Coppola got to make an art house movie on a big budget.

Films should first and foremost be entertaining and this one wasn't.

I voted two for the sole reason that it made me laugh once and any film that does that is not a complete loss.