Tony Takitani
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Drama, Romance, UR, 04-Apr-2025
Director Jun Ichikawa brings us his award-winning film adapted from Haruki Murakami’s New Yorker tale of solitude and obsession. When illustrator Tony Takitani meets a client, Eiko, he becomes fascinated with her and imagines a life beyond his loneliness. She, in turn, is infatuated with shopping for designer clothes. They eventually marry, but her excessive spending places the relationship under strain and proves to have heart-breaking consequences. With a narrative voiceover throughout, accompanied by minimal dialogue and an original soundtrack from Academy Award-winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, this is a meticulously composed movie about a solitary and heavy-hearted man.
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