Staring
Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Akiko Takeshita, and Kazuyoshi Minamimagoe
Overview
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.
Review
This is the movie that first sparked Japanese wanderlust. College me was addicted to this movie. There’s a generation of us who resonated with Charlotte, wondering who we were and who we would become. It’s still a lovely movie 20 years later.
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