This is a movie about a two married people who are at an important point of their life. By coincidence meet in Tokio. One is a young woman who just graduated and has her whole live ahead of her. The other is a man who has his whole career behind him. They live different lives but they share a common emptiness in their life. Both being unhappy about their marriage they start talking and eventually go out and explore the city together. After a while a special kind of romance binds them together. Because of the age difference they don't have sex. This creates a desire that doesn't get fulfilled.

The film is all about the characters and their feelings, it doesn't really contain a storyline. Personally I don't think the movie captures the emotions that come to play in this situation. In American beauty similar emotions come to play, but in this movie they are beautifully expressed by using great dialogue en music. And it is exactly this what is missing in Lost in translation. Lost in translation does contain nice footage of Tokio, although I think the image that is created of Tokio isn't realistic, but this probably was the intention.

Not as good as the critics say it is.