Mystery Train (film)
- Masatoshi Nagase: Jun
- Youki Kudoh: Mitsuko
- Screamin 'Jay Hawkins: Night Clerk
- Cinque Lee: Bellboy
- Nicoletta Braschi: Luisa
- Elizabeth Bracco: Dee Dee
- Joe Strummer: Johnny aka Elvis
- Rick Aviles: Will Robinson
- Steve Buscemi: Charlie the Barber
Mystery Train is a rotated in the United States in 1989 film by Jim Jarmusch.
Action
Different people spend a night at Hotel Arcade in Memphis, home of Elvis. In three episodes, we learn how the Japanese tourists Jun and Mitsuko discuss Rock'n'Roll ( episode " Far From Yokohama" ) as the permanent chatting Dee Dee, who has just now separated from her friend Johnny, with Italian Luisa, who wants to return her deceased husband to Italy, the room divides ( episode " A Ghost " ), and finally, like Johnny depressed with Will and his supposed brother Charlie the night kills until he picks up a gun ( episode " Lost in Space ").
Reviews
- Encyclopedia of the International film: ". A fascinating film about coincidences, banality and uncertainties of life, which strikes cheerful and funny sounds at all melancholy "
Trivia
- Jun points in a scene on a white Cadillac parked on the roadside. This may be a reference to the song " Brand new Cadillac " be seen, which is on the album London Calling by The Clash. After all, the actor Johnny is their guitarist and singer Joe Strummer.
- The protagonists of all episodes sometime hear a radio broadcast in which the song " Blue Moon" is played in the version of Elvis. The voice of the radio host heard Tom Waits, who played three years earlier in Jarmusch's Down by Law just such.
Awards
Mystery Train started in competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 1989 and received a special award for a particularly high artistic achievement.