Walking out of the theater after viewing Tony Takitani was like waking from a dream. It felt like I had been in the theater for much longer than the film's 75 minute running time, and it took me most of the drive home to pull my head out of the film and reorient myself. The film, adapted from the short novel of the same name by Haruki Murakami, is like a fine wine that lingers on the taste buds long after you sip it, its flavor filling and overwhelming your senses.
- Review of Tony Takitani by Kim Voynar on Cinematic

Haruki Murakami is without hesitation my favorite contemporary writer. Tony Takitani is the film adaptation of the short story of the same name. The film has ingeniously remained very close to the rhythm and pathos of the written story. By the films end you feel as if you had read it rather  than have seen it. A friend having left without saying goodbye.

Approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes, the film feels like a short. I confess doublechecking the time for it felt as if only 30 minutes had passed. And that's how the story reads. And like so many of Murakami's narratives, this one i sat once both fantastic and real. I am rarely satistfied with films where I've read the story beforehand. This film is an equal. Director Jun Ichikawa has done a masterful job in translation. Beautiful, deliberate, lonely.

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