Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Good start, but then it gets ruined

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

The movie should be called Blue Balls in Tokio instead of lost in translation.

I bought this movie from Goodwill and two bucks and that is all it is worth. The movie just drags on and on. There are some nice visuals of the Tokyo night life but I didn't feel any connection with Bill Murray or Scarlet Johannson or any of the Japanese characters. Just a boring movie about a bored movie star. I kept fast forwarding through the movie hoping it would have some redeeming qualities, but no.

This movie was a great disappointment. It has a big reputation, but I just can't see why. It's cliché-ridden, unfunny and makes cheap fun of Japanese culture. A typical example of the self-centered view Americans have of the world. I couldn't find anything profound or deep at all in this movie. Just two spoiled Americans feeling sorry for themselves in a strange, 'exotic' country. Give me a break. If I wouldn't have known any better, I would just have considered this one of Woody Allen's lesser movies...

I love this movie. I watched it again after many years. I still love it. Perhaps my best movie ever. About Love and Life and a little bit about Japan and being lost in translation. It makes me feel so many emotions. I reminds me of my life and a life i never had. Thank you Sofia for making it! Please everyone watch it.