- Tony Takitani
Infobox_Film
name = Tony Takitani
writer =Haruki Murakami (short story),Jun Ichikawa
starring =Issei Ogata ,Rie Miyazawa
director =Jun Ichikawa
producer =Motoki Ishida
distributor = Strand Releasing
released =29 January 2005 (Tokyo)
runtime = 75 min
language = Japanese
budget =
imdb_id = 0420260"Tony Takitani" (トニー滝谷) is a 2004
Japan ese movie directed byJun Ichikawa , based upon theshort story byHaruki Murakami .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. [ [http://www.lovehkfilm.com/panasia/tony_takitani.htm lovehkfilm.com] , cites "The Daily Yomiuiri".]
Plot summary
Tony Takitani, a technical illustrator, meets, falls in love with, and marries a woman who is obsessed with shopping for clothes and accessories. When she dies suddenly, he is completely distraught and sets about hiring a woman as an assistant, with the one primary condition being that she should wear his wife's clothes to work. However, after the final job interview, he changes his mind and sells the clothes instead, realising that he is destined to spend the rest of his life alone.
Cast
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Issei Ogata – Tony Takitani, Shozaburo Takitani
*Rie Miyazawa – Konuma Eiko, Hisako
*Shinohara Takahumi – Young Tony Takitani
*Hidetoshi Nishijima – Narrator (voice)
* Music byRyuichi Sakamoto References
External links
* [http://www.tonytakitani.com/ Official site]
*imdb title|id=0420260|title=Tony Takitani
* [http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/2005/ec000290.htm Tony Takitani] at JMDb (in Japanese)
*Special edition [http://www.cloverfieldpress.com/takitani.html book] of the short story, Tony Takitani by Haruki Murakami
* [http://dvd.reviewer.co.uk/reviews/review.asp?Index=5335&User=35825 Region 2 DVD review]
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