Tony Takitani
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| Tony Takitani | |
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| Directed by | Jun Ichikawa |
| Produced by | Motoki Ishida |
| Written by | Haruki Murakami (novel), Jun Ichikawa |
| Starring | Issei Ogata, Rie Miyazawa |
| Distributed by | Strand Releasing |
| Release date(s) | 29 January 2005 (Tokyo) |
| Running time | 75 min |
| Language | Japanese |
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Tony Takitani (トニー滝谷) is a 2004 Japanese movie directed by Jun Ichikawa, based upon the short story by Haruki Murakami.
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[edit] Inspiration
Haruki Murakami was intrigued by the name Tony Takitani when, at a garage sale on Maui, he found a yellow T-shirt that said, Tony Takitani, House (D). At the time, Takitani was running for office. Murakami decided to write the man's life story as this novel.[citation needed]
[edit] Plot summary
Tony Takitani meets, falls in love with and marries a woman who is obsessed with shopping for clothes and accessories. When she passes away, he is completely distraught and ends up hiring a woman as an assistant with the one primary condition being that she should wear his wife's clothes everyday.
[edit] Cast
- Issei Ogata – Tony Takitani, Shozaburo Takitani
- Rie Miyazawa – Konuma Eiko, Hisako
- Shinohara Takahumi – Young Tony Takitani
- Hidetoshi Nishijima – Narrator (voice)
- Music by Ryuichi Sakamoto
[edit] External links
- Official site
- Tony Takitani at the Internet Movie Database
- Tony Takitani at JMDb (in Japanese)
- Special edition book of the short story, Tony Takitani by Haruki Murakami
- Region 2 DVD review
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