Sophia Coppola 31 (daughter of Francis Coppola--famous Hollywood director) wrote and directed this pseudo-intellectual boring movie.

Scarlett Johansson's (21) panty shots got old fast and Bill Murray at 52 looks 102.

The Japanese are different but this movie takes that bizarreness (to us) and stretches it in all directions and robs them of any other human traits. I agree with the reviewer that this would have made a parody or comedy along the lines of the Mikado. I think it was meant to be a deep sexy feelgood movie with elements of comedy--it achieves none of this. Ms. Coppola better get of the coke and look at this with sober eyes.

This movie drags and is boring. Yes it won an Oscar well surprise surprise Oscar rewards go mostly to PC stuff with some sort of twist that hasn't been done before (dogs in Mumbai etc..) but it is also a old boys town--Coppola's daughter etc... To be honest an Oscar is a negative rating to me.

What an absurdity that people rated this dull pointless thing a 7.8 Unbelievable.

The critics? Mostly a bunch of idiots always.

DO NOT RECOMMEND