About time! Amazon.com informed me about the nice fact that Universal will release one of my favourite movies, Sophia Coppola’s Lost in Translation on Blu-ray Disc in the US on December 7, 2010. Just about a week before Coppola’s latest film Somewhere will hit the US screens. I already own the HD DVD of LiT and I don’t think the film will look any better on Blu-ray Disc, but I just hate to turn on the Xbox 360 and it’s turbine engine just to see Scarlett Johansson running around in a Tokyo hotel room in her underwear…
Pre-order Lost in Translation on Blu-ray Disc from Amazon.com

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Pretty interessting video essay on Sofia Coppolas Lost in Translation from Focus Features’ FilmInFocus series in which Stephanie Zacharek talks about the relationship between Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson’s characters.

[via DVDDuell.de]

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The Tokyo Perfume from Kimhwan

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Dutch photographer Warren den Engelsman shows us some very fascination impressions of the aestival Japanese capital and its citizens in his Tokyo 2009 collage which, unlike most other videos on this site, doesn’t need any technical knick-knack to impress.

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Tokyo Sundown Remix by Patrick Gosling.

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During my search for some more nice videos of/from Japan I stumbled upon the works of video artist Samuel Cockedey on Alexandre Gervais’ blog.
I embedded his two impressive time lapse videos static:pulse and remanence:variance below because I just love the sunsets in static:pulse (2:40) that kickstart Tokyo’s nightlife…
static:pulse

remanence:variance after the jump…

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Because you guys seemed to love the last video portrait of Japan I posted back in April, I thought you might also be interested in the following video showing the nightlife of Tokyo in timelapse. This one doesn’t have a Sigur Ros song in the background but some original sounds straight from Japan!

[via Muza-chan's Gate to Japan]

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Tout Le Ciné has scrounged off two new clips from Isabel Coixet’s upcoming thriller Map of the Sounds of Tokyo in Cannes. Being a cheap-ass myself, I borrowed and embedded the harmless one that shows an English dialogue between the hit-women Rinko Kikuchi and the Spanish wine dealer Sergi Lopez.

[via @nipponcinema]

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Radio Televisión Española (RTS) has released a first, beautiful haunting trailer (NSFW because of some metro sex and nyotaimori shots) for Isabel Coixet’s (My Life without Me, Elegy) “romantic and sentimental thriller” Map of the Sounds of Tokyo.
It tells the story of the fragile woman Ryu (Rinko Kikuchi) who does night shifts at a fish market in Tokyo but sometimes also operates as an hit-woman. She’s hired to kill the Spanish wine dealer David (Sergi López) who’s supposed to be responsible for the suicide of the daughter of a Japanese businessman. The whole story is observed by far from a sound engineer who’s obsessed with Ryu.

Map of the Sounds of Tokyo will open in Spanish theaters on August 28, 2009.
[13.05.09] Update: Replaced the trailer with the Japanese version.
[via Nippon Cinema]

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