Quiet and subdued but finally heartrending, this Japanese drama by Jun Ichikawa goes bone-deep into its title character...

| Jun 28, 2022

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 6, 2006

Ichikawa evokes the heady and suffocating effect of the past playing irrevocable catch-up with itself.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 14, 2006

An ethereal modern fable without a moral, Tony Takatani seeps into the soul and lingers. For filmgoers in search of a quietly absorbing escape, it might be the perfect holiday-movie antidote.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 8, 2005

Though it falters as a narrative, Tony Takitani sticks in the mind with its poetic contemplativeness.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 4, 2005

| Original Score: A- | Oct 29, 2005

Like a cultivated orchid, the delicate product of careful attention and an appreciation for fleeting beauty.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 21, 2005

The film gestures toward our understanding of deep matters -- grief, solitude, and the process by which people build and express their very selves -- and it does so with a commendably steady, gentle hand.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 15, 2005

It's a marvelously moody meditation, beautiful to look at and beautiful to ponder as the camera slowly pans from one scene to the next, framing life as still life.

| Oct 13, 2005

It's a film for specialized tastes, quiet, delicate. But it suits those tastes beautifully.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 29, 2005

Tony Takitani, fablelike and beautiful, requires a certain amount of patience, but its small, peculiar charms work their way into your soul.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 8, 2005

Whether you view it as a metaphor for a country or a singular study of the human condition, Tony Takitani explores the borders between solitude and loneliness, hunger and consumption, memory and loss.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 2, 2005

Tony Takitani is an exquisite film, as elegant and precise as an impeccably cut diamond.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 25, 2005

A gentle breeze of absurdism floats through this lyrically understated story. Its sadness is little short of magical.

Full Review | Aug 25, 2005

This gossamer work is one of the loveliest examples of minimalist cinema I've seen in a long time.

Full Review | Aug 25, 2005

This is a wisp of a film that despite its simplicity is hardly slight.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 12, 2005

It's a quiet dream of a movie, a vision of loneliness giving way to love, then to loneliness again; it's like Vertigo remade in a sedately haunted style of Japanese lyricism.

| Original Score: A | Aug 3, 2005

A quietly simple fable that hits you hardest after it's over.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 29, 2005

The camera effortlessly glides from scene to scene, revealing faultlessly framed shots that consist mostly of just one or two people, their backs often to the camera.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 29, 2005

A delicate wisp of a film with a surprisingly sharp sting.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 28, 2005