Tony Takitani

• Issei Ogata: Tony Takitani / Shozaburo Takitani
• Rie Miyazawa: Konuma Eiko / Hisako
• Shinohara Takahumi: Young Tony Takitani
• Hidetoshi Nishijima: narrator

Tony Takitani is a film by the Japanese director Ichikawa June of 2004, based on the short story by Haruki Murakami.

Action

Tony Takitanis childhood marked by loneliness: His mother died very early and his father is rarely home. The integration into Japanese society is difficult for him because of his unusual first name. Tony developed a talent for meticulously depict reality in images and is a technical draftsman. One day, Tony is now 40 years old, he meets 15-year- younger Eiko Konuma. They fall in love and get married soon.

Eiko suffering from a shopping addiction and over time they needed for their wardrobe even a private room. After Tony asks her to spend less money on it, it returns some of their precious garments. On the ride home she is the victim of a traffic accident and dies. Tony then draws the young Hisako one as his assistant. Condition is that she wears the clothes of his dead wife. Even before Hisako their first work day begins, Tony pulls back the place. The film ends with a call from Tony at Hisako, but which missed this, since she is molested by an elderly lady on the street.

Reviews

" The story of a man without qualities condenses into coherent parable about the solitude and quiet sets the narrative flow of the literary text to convincing. Developed clear and gentle, the film's lostness of individuals reflected in a modern urban environment. "

" Barren scenes, lifeless colors: Jun Ichikawa is the first filmmaker who ventures on a story by the writer Haruki Murakami. The result, " Tony Takitani " is wonderful voices "

"After a short history of Japanese bestselling author Haruki Murakami staged June Ichikawa a work which takes back in the story and mainly works on the image. This fits the music of Ryuichi Sakamoto as the clothes of the secretary. "