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Japanese Story

  • 2003
  • PG
  • 1h 46m
ÉVALUATION IMDb
6,8/10
6,9 k
MA NOTE
Toni Collette in Japanese Story (2003)
Against the background of an Australian desert, Sandy, a geologist, and Hiromitsu, a Japanese businessman, play out a story of human inconsequence in the face of the blistering universe. The end of the journey leaves no one capable of going back to where they started from.
Liretrailer2 min 08 s
8 vidéos
24 photos
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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueAgainst the background of an Australian desert, Sandy, a geologist, and Hiromitsu, a Japanese businessman, play out a story of human inconsequence in the face of the blistering universe. The... Tout lireAgainst the background of an Australian desert, Sandy, a geologist, and Hiromitsu, a Japanese businessman, play out a story of human inconsequence in the face of the blistering universe. The end of the journey leaves no one capable of going back to where they started from.Against the background of an Australian desert, Sandy, a geologist, and Hiromitsu, a Japanese businessman, play out a story of human inconsequence in the face of the blistering universe. The end of the journey leaves no one capable of going back to where they started from.

  • Director
    • Sue Brooks
  • Writer
    • Alison Tilson
  • Stars
    • Toni Collette
    • Gotaro Tsunashima
    • Lynette Curran
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  • ÉVALUATION IMDb
    6,8/10
    6,9 k
    MA NOTE
    • Director
      • Sue Brooks
    • Writer
      • Alison Tilson
    • Stars
      • Toni Collette
      • Gotaro Tsunashima
      • Lynette Curran
    • 135Commentaires d'utilisateurs
    • 58Commentaires de critiques
    • 73Métascore
  • Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro
    • Prix
      • 20 victoires et 13 nominations au total

    Vidéos8

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    Rôles principaux26

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    Toni Collette
    Toni Collette
    • Sandy Edwards
    Gotaro Tsunashima
    • Hiromitsu Tachibana
    Lynette Curran
    Lynette Curran
    • Mum
    Matthew Dyktynski
    • Bill Baird
    Yumiko Tanaka
    • Yukiko Tachibana
    Kate Atkinson
    Kate Atkinson
    • Jackie
    Bill Young
    Bill Young
    • Jimmy Smithers
    Reg Evans
    Reg Evans
    • Bloke in Row Boat
    George Shevtsov
    George Shevtsov
    • James (lawyer)
    Justine Clarke
    Justine Clarke
    • Jane
    Igor Sas
    • Fraser
    Mike Frencham
    • Blake
    John Howard
    John Howard
    • Richards
    Phil Bennett
    • Barman
    Heath Bergersen
    • Petrol Bloke
    Jules Hutchinson
    • Canteen Worker
    • (as Jules Hutchison)
    Kuni Hashimoto
    Kuni Hashimoto
    • Japanese Translator
    Mark McAullay
    • Watson
    • Director
      • Sue Brooks
    • Writer
      • Alison Tilson
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    Commentaires des utilisateurs135

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    Buddy-51

    unexpected plot twists make movie work

    The best thing about `Japanese Story,' an Australian film directed by Sue Brooks and set almost entirely in the Outback, is its unpredictability. Just as you begin to think that the story, written by Alison Tilson, is headed in one particular direction, it does an amazing about-face and leads us down an entirely different, utterly unexpected narrative path.

    The movie starts off as a fairly standard romantic comedy, involving two strangers who don't like each other very much yet who are forced to spend an inordinate amount of time together. Sandy is a geologist whose company, against her will and better judgment, has asked her to escort an important Japanese businessman through the wilds of the Australian desert on a sightseeing tour. The film even begins to seem a bit like a landlocked `Swept Away' for awhile, as these two headstrong people – he a Japanese traditionalist with male chauvinistic tendencies and she a no-nonsense, freethinking, independent woman (but both filled with doubts and insecurities beneath the surface) – find themselves stranded in a hostile and remote environment, fighting for survival. But then the first of the film's numerous plot reversals kicks in and we find ourselves in an entirely different situation altogether.

    I certainly don't want to spoil anyone's experience of this film by revealing just what those plot twists are, so I will merely state that the film, in the second half, becomes a fairly profound meditation on the precarious nature of life and the almost lightning-paced speed with which tragedy can intervene to bring our worlds crashing down around us. Toni Collette is heartbreaking as the feisty yet warmhearted Sandy and Gotaro Tsunashima is both tender and stoic as the man from an exotic culture with whom she eventually falls in love.

    That, of course, is the predictable part. But if you think you know where this story is going, you will be pleasantly surprised at how wrong you will be.
    8=G=

    The less you know about this film, the better.

    It would be impossible to say anything substantially meaningful about "Japanese Story" without spoiling the film for those who have not seen it. Suffice it to say, it's set in Australia and works with a an Aussie woman (Colette) and a Japanese man (Hiromitsu) to build slowly to an emotionally potent situation - a series of moments - and then lingers in the denouement allowing the audience to savor the emotions evoked. For some, those feelings may be nil. For others they may be powerful and overwhelming. Personally, I wept. Objectively, the film, about a woman by women, is well crafted and Colette's performance is outstanding. The film deserves high marks in all aspects from cinematography to music to casting, etc. However, when the closing credits roll, your experience will have been as unique as yourself. And whatever that experience is, it will be less if you know the outcome in advance. (B+)
    8lawprof

    Hardly a Conventional Love Story: Good!

    Australia has given the cinema some wonderfully adept and strikingly effective female actors in the past twenty years or so, Judy Davis starting a parade that includes Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett and Toni Collett among others. Collett has the ability to convincingly inhabit many different roles, her part as the depressed, suicidal mom in "About a Boy" being one of her most memorable.

    "Japanese Story" is a quirky tale about Sandy Edwards, Collette, an Australian geologist in her, I would guess, mid-thirties. She's ordered to squire about the son of a Japanese industrialist whose investment in a major project is dearly desired by her bosses. The young man, handicapped by a very poor grasp of English and virtually none of Australian, is played by Gotaro Tsunashima. He might be well known in his native country but he was a new screen presence for me.

    Sandy takes him on a tour of an achingly eerie, desolate, windswept part of Western Australia. Must of the movie was filmed in the Pilbara Desert, still aborigine country.

    Sandy and her charge encounter adventurous situations while, no surprise, a romance springs up. Why Sandy would be attracted to the younger gentleman is never explained and it really shouldn't have been. "Japanese Story" asks the viewer to simply accept that liaisons arise without any deep preliminary exposition of character.

    I won't reveal the plot, somewhat unexpected, but fate insures that this affair doesn't proceed swimmingly. What makes the movie is Collette's superb and affecting acting. I cared about her while knowing relatively little about her character's past life other than she hasn't completely resolved mom-daughter issues.

    Nothing in this film could impel me to ever wish to go to the Pilbara Desert but it does excite my desire to see Collette take on many more challenging roles. She has a strong future-I hope.

    8/10. See it if it plays near you, rent it later if not. You won't be sorry.
    10britten-daniel

    A masterpiece

    In an age when criticism has become debased and few people are really certain about what constitutes true worth in art, it is difficult to use the word "masterpiece" about any film. And yet that word is applicable here. At first this film appears to be just a bog-standard romantic love story, in the Hollywood mould, about two very different characters who meet and fall in love in unusual circumstances. Opposites attract, and so on.

    However, as the story unfolds one becomes aware that there are many more levels to it than one would normally expect. Everything, from the title to incidental characters and the spectacular images of the desert, has been carefully thought out. It raises profound questions about a fashionable subject: identity, but also about love itself. Are these characters in love, or is it merely the terrifying starkness of the Australian outback that has thrown them together? Finally a third person enters the relationship, who complicates matters even further. Despite the romantic overtones of this film it is lifted, ultimately, by its absolute realism. Small gestures betoken whole story lines and glimpses of other characters throw the protagonists into sharp relief. Other influences begin to trickle through: Yasujiro Ozu, Peter Weir (in his early days), Japanese Haiku. And yet this is an entirely original work.

    This film had a huge emotional impact on me, but it also made me think, about my own life and about the choices I've made. It did everything that a genuine work of art should do, and without any of the fanfare that we, in the West, have come to associate with art. Small wonder that it got little of the attention that in previous eras it would have attracted. Watch it, and discover that it is still possible to make a classic.
    10Adetunji

    Outstanding and Beautiful - Australian Haiku

    This is, apparently, a love it or hate it movie. As is the case with such films those on one side have a hard time understanding the view of the opposite. I am fully in that camp, I thought this film was stark and beautiful--as moving in its silence and mundane moments as it was illuminating. For those who say there is no plot, well I clearly saw a different film, there is more story and intention in simple small details as there are in a whole series of other films. Toni Collette was amazing and Gotaro Tsunashima was perfect, capturing the emotional compression and exploration of his character with clarity and skill. In a film full of striking absolutely believable and full moments -- the furtive exploratory glances as the two leads drive through the desert, and Toni's fascination with Gotaro's nearly hairless arms say so much about the characters', their history, their assumptions, their prejudices. Incredibly moving, shattering emotionally, and ultimately deeply profound. A haiku-like meditation on living and sharing--I loved it.

    Histoire

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    Le saviez-vous

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    • Gaffes
      When the QANTAS jet to Kyoto leaves, it is actually leaving from the Perth domestic airport. The international terminal, where it would really leave from, and the Darling Ranges to the east, are clearly visible in the background.
    • Générique farfelu
      Our thanks to the people of Nyamal, Ngarluma, Yinjibarndi, Bunjima and Nyiparli Nations.
    • Connexions
      Featured in Inside Japanese Story: an evening with the film-makers (2004)
    • Bandes originales
      ABC News Theme
      (1986)

      Written by Tony Ansell (as T. Ansell) and Peter Wall (as P. Wall)

      Published by ABC Music Publishing and

      Kindly reproduced with the permission of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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    Détails

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    • Date de sortie
      • 25 septembre 2003 (Australia)
    • Pays d’origine
      • Australia
    • Sites officiels
      • Palace Films
      • Screenwest (Australia)
    • Langues
      • English
      • Japanese
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • Японская история
    • Lieux de tournage
      • Perth Airport, Perth, Australie-Occidentale, Australie
    • sociétés de production
      • Australian Film Finance Corporation (AFFC)
      • Fortissimo Films
      • Gecko Films Pty. Ltd.
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    Box-office

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    • Budget
      • 5 740 000 $ US (estimation)
    • Brut – États-Unis et Canada
      • 647 054 $ US
    • Fin de semaine d'ouverture – États-Unis et Canada
      • 23 962 $ US
      • 4 janv. 2004
    • Brut – à l'échelle mondiale
      • 4 098 613 $ US
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    Spécifications techniques

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    • Durée
      1 heure 46 minutes
    • Couleur
      • Color
    • Mixage
      • Dolby Digital
    • Rapport de forme
      • 2.35 : 1

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