Bill Young, Gotaro Tsunashima, John Howard
A drama set in Western Australia's Pilbura desert. A geologist named Sandy, and a Japanese businessman, Hiromitsu, play out a story of human inconsequence, in the face of the blistering universe. The ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: May 11, 2004
Stats: 320 reviews
A film of rare beauty and hidden brilliance. A tale of human strengths and frailty and a barometer of cultural diversity. Will always be the film in which Toni Collette delivered the performance of her career.
A Japanese Story is one of the better Australian made films and this comes in it's themes of cultural indifferences and relationships between two completely different people and is achieved with great performances. The paradox of a Japanese man (Hiromitsu), who is so used to crow...( read more)
Love Japanese Horror, This was not a Horror flix in anyway, But I screamed as loud as any Horror Flix I ever saw, Pretty boring, not sure how it got on my rental list but will not be on my to buy list. Nice Australian scenes
for sexuality and language
Japanese Story had a good storyline, and an unexpected surprise. The romantic part between Colette and th...( read more)
This movie had its momemts. For some reason, I really did not care about the characters except on the surface level. This film really was deep on an emotional scale...but it did not have any impact on me. Character development could have been better.
Touching story which starts out with two people not being able to stand each other.
I thought this film was really well acted,was nice too see the characters learning more about each other and their cultures.I felt myself go through every emotion watching this. I will recommend to all my friends.Nice scenery too! Am pleased I picked this as had never heard befor...( read more)
jungle fever..two peopple from different life styles cause of race...this movie isn't campy though..it's serious and emotional.
To mildly respect Japanese Story is easy. To enjoy it would require an act of will. full review
This is that rare sort of film that is not about what happens, but about what happens then. full review
A mawkish fusion of Nicolas Roeg's Walkabout and the recent Lost in Translation, with cultural politics even more problematic than those Sofia Coppola danced about in her film. full review
On one level -- an important one -- Brooks' picture, erotically charged and haunting, is about the way people connect, and change each other, profoundly. full review
Sue Brooks's film, a stretched-out short story set against the natural sublimity of the Australian wilderness, provides Toni Colette with an opportunity to display her range. full review
Tsunashima is superb, and a never-better Collette has a radiant intensity that hits you right in the heart. full review
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