Lost in Translation is a 2003 romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Sofia Coppola. The film follows Bob Harris (Bill Murray), an aging American movie star, and Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), a young college graduate, as they develop a relationship after meeting in
Lost in Translation is a 2003 romantic comedy drama film written and directed by Sofia Coppola. Bill Murray stars as Bob Harris, a fading American movie star who is having a midlife crisis when he travels to Tokyo to promote Suntory whiskey. He befriends another disillusioned American, Charlotte, a recent college graduate and married for two years. Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris, and Fumihiro Hayashi are also featured. The film explores themes of alienation and disconnection against a backdrop of cultural displacement in Japan. It does not use mainstream narrative conventions and is atypical in its depiction of romance.