The Park Hyatt Tokyo was so integral to Lost in Translation it probably deserved its own feature billing during the film’s opening credits. Bob (Bill Murray) and Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) as well as other recurring characters spend the majority of their time in Tokyo cloistered in the hotel. Many of…

Yesterday, November 27th 2021, №5 Michigan hosted №2 Ohio State in Ann Arbor, Michigan for the 117th iteration of the biggest rivalry in all of American sports — so big that the annual college football contest is known simply as “The Game.” Historically, The Game had been a de facto…

After the main title card, the film opens with a shot of a clearly jetlagged Bob Harris (Bill Murray) in a taxi, his head…

A small but memorable scene from the film: Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) leaves Bob Harris (Bill Murray) a voicemail telling him to meet her and her friend Charlie Brown (Fumihiro Hayashi) at a bar…

Famed Japanese designer and influencer Hiroshi Fujiwara had a cameo appearance in the film during the nightclub scene filmed at Air in Daikanyama (which is the subject of a prior post). In that…

Some of the most iconic scenes of the film are the early shots of Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) walking through the famed Shibuya Scramble intersection on a rainy day among a sea of pedestrians wielding clear plastic umbrellas. Charlotte weaves through…

Throughout the film, Bob Harris (Bill Murray) and Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) spend most of their nights at the New York Bar in the Park Hyatt, but they did venture out of the comfort of their five star hotel on…

Early in the film Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) makes a solo trip to a small temple in Tokyo after navigating Tokyo’s perplexing subway system. While there, she walks in on a Buddhist ceremony being performed by several monks to a small audience. …

During their night out on Tokyo, Bob Harris (Bill Murray) and Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) make their way by taxi to Shibuya after escaping the irate bouncers at the Daikanyama Air night club after Charlotte's friend "Charlie Brown" insults a bartender. Bob…