The movie is about a middle aged actor in Japan doing a whisky commercial and while he is there he befriends a lonely young woman. The two are played by Scarlett Johanson and Bill Murry. The entire film comes off as if there was no script and the two actors are just given an idea, sort of like an improv group. The problem is Johanson has zero ability to do improv. Watch the scene where they are sitting at a bar and Murry notices her black toe. He goes on and on about taking her to a hospital while she just sits there and giggles. It's like watching a kid in an acting class, she is absolutely terrible in this movie. One boring improvised scene after another. Another scene has the two in robes talking about the pool at the hotel. It is as if the director said "OK just make up conversation about the pool, ACTION!" And then both actors just stand there talking about the pool, and once again Johanson just stands there trying to make up dialogue, it's not her fault the scenes are so dull, why should she be able to come up with great things to say, how about A SCRIPT??? This could go down as the single most overrated movie of all time. Copolla won the Academy Award for screenplay?? That made absolutely no sense.

Also many scenes are condescending to the Japanese people, they are sometimes used as props for Murry's improv and it really begins to get awkward. Pass on this one.