Sofia Coppola	...	(Director)
Sofia Coppola	...	(Writer)
Scarlett Johansson	...	Charlotte
Bill Murray	...	Bob Harris
Akiko Takeshita	...	Ms. Kawasaki
Kazuyoshi Minamimagoe	...	Press Agent
Kazuko Shibata	...	Press Agent
Take	...	Press Agent
Ryuichiro Baba	...	Concierge
Akira Yamaguchi	...	Bellboy
Catherine Lambert	...	Jazz Singer
François du Bois	...	Sausalito Piano (as Francois du Bois)
Tim Leffman	...	Sausalito Guitar
Gregory Pekar	...	American Businessman #1
Richard Allen	...	American Businessman #2
Giovanni Ribisi	...	John
Diamond Yukai	...	Commercial Director (as Yutaka Tadokoro)
Kevin Shields	...	Composer
Lance Acord	...	Cinematographer
FranÁois du Bois	...	Sausalito Piano
Jun Maki	...	Suntory Client
Nao Asuka	...	Premium Fantasy Woman
Tetsuro Naka	...	Stills Photographer
Kanako Nakazato	...	Make-Up Person
Fumihiro Hayashi	...	Charlie
Hiroko Kawasaki	...	Hiroko
Daikon	...	Bambie
Anna Faris	...	Kelly
Asuka Shimuzu	...	Kelly's Translator
Ikuko Takahashi	...	Ikebana Instructor
Koichi Tanaka	...	Bartender, NY Bar
Hugo Codaro	...	Aerobics Instructor
Akiko Monô	...	P Chan
Akimitsu Naruyama	...	French Japanese Nightclub Patron
Hiroshi Kawashima	...	Bartender, Nightclub
Hiromi Toshikawa	...	Hiromix
Nobuhiko Kitamura	...	Nobu
Nao Kitman	...	Nao
Akira	...	Hans
Kunichi Nomura	...	Kun
Yasuhiko Hattori	...	Charlie's Friend
Shigekazu Aida	...	Mr. Valentine
Kazuo Yamada	...	Hospital Receptionist
Akira Motomura	...	Old Man
Akiko Monou	...	P Chan
Osamu Shigematu	...	Doctor
Takashi Fujii	...	TV Host (as Mathew Minami)
Kei Takyo	...	TV Translator
Ryo Kondo	...	Politician
Yumi Ikeda	...	Politician's Aide
Yumika Saki	...	Politician's Aide
Yuji Okabe	...	Politician's Aide
Dietrich Bollmann	...	German Hotel Guest
Georg O.P. Eschert	...	German Hotel Guest
Mark Willms	...	Carl West
Lisle Wilkerson	...	Sexy Businesswoman
Nancy Steiner	...	Lydia Harris

Comments: Donated by Professor Theresa Marie Hernandez

Summary: Middle-aged American movie star Bob Harris is in Tokyo to film a personal endorsement Suntory whiskey ad solely for the Japanese market. He is past his movie star prime, but his name and image still have enough cachet for him to have gotten this lucrative $2 million job. He has an unsatisfying home life where his wife Lydia follows him wherever he goes - in the form of messages and faxes - for him to deal with the minutiae of their everyday lives, while she stays at home to look after their kids. Staying at the same upscale hotel is fellow American, twenty-something recent Yale Philosophy graduate Charlotte, her husband John, an entertainment still photographer, who is on assignment in Japan. As such, she is largely left to her own devices in the city, especially when his job takes him out of Tokyo. Both Bob and Charlotte are feeling lost by their current situations, which are not helped by the cultural barriers they feel in Tokyo, those cultural barriers extending far beyond just not...