this movie took forever to get going. once it did, it then got really boring. big deal: tokyo techno/karaoke scene, so what? an aging, wrinkled old geezer has been hooking up with a young girl, so what?? the director's obsession with close-ups of the heroine were almost lesbian-like. yes, she is pretty, as pretty as the women is see at the grocery store everyday. lame, lousy, boring. she has pouty lips, and pretty eyes, so what. is that all the director can do with a scene? ebert and roeper give thumbs up to stuff that they wish was good, what they want to be good. this movie sucked.

the shots of the tokyo environment were stunning. that was the sole redeeming feature of this movie. - it glorifies infidelity. it glorifies old geezers going after young married women. it tries to glorify the abject emptiness of a middle-aged man who is empty due to his own wasted vacuous life which he has lived, by his own choice. - this movie was a total waste of time. bill murray's worst.