Ghostbusters Bill Murray is an aging action star (Bill Harris) doing a Suntory Whisky ad campaign in Tokyo for a couple of million dollars. He is on his own in a country where he understands nothing that is being said to him. Scarlett Johansson (Charlotte) is married to photographer Giovanni Ribisi who is in Japan to shoot a spread for a band but he leaves Scarlett alone in their hotel room every day. Neither Bill nor Charlotte can sleep at night for the week they are both in Tokyo and they end up seeing each other in the bar and the hotel pool. They are two people in a frantic neon light filled world where there are so many people but they are actually alone. Eventually Charlotte invites Bill to join her when she catches up with some people she knows and an unlikely friendship blooms between the much older Bill and Charlotte. While they never have sex, their friendship grows to the point they can both fall asleep with each other. In fact, when Bill ends up having sex with the lounge singer and Charlotte discovers him in the morning, she is jealous. It almost ends their friendship. When the week is over, will they part friends?
Almost every scene that Bill Murray is in is hilarious, but not like slapstick funny. A great example is when he is filming the commercial for the whisky and the director is speaking to him in Japanese and the interpreter converts it to English and it seems the director was saying so much more. Bill Murray can make me crack up with laughter with just a look. Brilliant.
This is a very slow movie but just wonderful to experience. I really enjoyed this. 9/10
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