Lost in Translation — Index

The wiki for Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation (2003). Hub: Lost in Translation (2003).

Plot

• Plot Summary (Lost in Translation) — the film in narrative prose
• Plot Structure (Lost in Translation) — the film mapped through the Two Approaches framework
• Backbeats (Lost in Translation) — the film in numbered beats
• The Whispered Farewell Climax (Lost in Translation) — the strict-mission climax/wind-down read

Cast

• Cast and Characters (Lost in Translation) — full cast and casting history
• Bill Murray — Bob Harris
• Scarlett Johansson — Charlotte
• Giovanni Ribisi — John, Charlotte's husband
• Anna Faris — Kelly
• Catherine Lambert — Catherine, the lounge singer

Characters in the film

• Bob Harris (Lost in Translation)
• Charlotte (Lost in Translation)
• John (Lost in Translation)
• Kelly (Lost in Translation)
• Catherine (Lost in Translation)
• Charlie Brown (Lost in Translation)

Production

• Production History (Lost in Translation) — twenty-seven days, no permits, $4 million
• Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation) — writer-director
• Lance Acord (Lost in Translation) — cinematographer
• Brian Reitzell and Kevin Shields (Lost in Translation) — music supervisor and composer
• The Park Hyatt Tokyo (Lost in Translation) — the actual hotel as setting
• The 27-Day Tokyo Shoot — the production conditions in detail
• The Improvised Whisper — what is and is not known about the line
• Physical Media Releases (Lost in Translation) — DVD, Blu-ray, 4K UHD history

Analysis and Reception

• Themes and Analysis (Lost in Translation) — the four interlocking thematic concerns
• Critical Reception and Legacy (Lost in Translation) — the autumn-2003 consensus and the twenty-year aftermath
• Cultural Reception in Japan and the Race Critique — the Paik essay and the sustained representation debate
• The Father Coppola Connection — Sofia and Francis

Essays

• The Opening Shot — Charlotte at the window in pink underwear
• Suntory Time — the whisky shoot as comic engine
• The Karaoke Sequence — "More Than This" and the pink wig
• The Hospital Sequence — Charlotte's toe and the elderly Japanese man
• The Kyoto Excursion — the Heian Shrine and the exhausted template
• The Floor Conversation — the midpoint, head-to-head on the bed
• The Fire Alarm Night — the evacuated hotel and the named deadline
• The Whispered Farewell — the inaudible street goodbye
• Tokyo as Frame and Mirror — how the city is photographed
• Marriage and Loneliness in Lost in Translation — two unhappy marriages running in parallel
• The Soundtrack and Mood (Lost in Translation) — Kevin Shields, "Just Like Honey," and the album
• The Anna Faris and Cameron Diaz Question — the Kelly character controversy
• Lost in Translation and Slow Cinema — genre and lineage
• Lost in Translation and Wong Kar-wai — In the Mood for Love and the bounded-romance lineage
• American Loneliness in Foreign Cities — Antonioni, Wenders, the Linklater parallel