Comments on: What is the Japanese photographer saying in Lost in Translation?

Question: What is the Japanese photographer saying in Lost in Translation?

mkultra — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 10:55:25 -0800

What is the Japanese photographer saying in Lost in Translation? [more inside]

When Bill Murray's character is doing his photo shoot, there's an extended sequence where the photographer is rattling off lengthy directions, and the translator just says things like "more intensity". I realize that this is supposed to be a commentary on this kind of thing, but I'm curious as to what he's actually saying. Not looking for a word-for-word, but if any Japanese speakers could clue me in, I'd be grateful :).

By: adamrice

adamrice — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 11:06:21 -0800

It was in the NYT a little while ago, but someone posted the text of that article to a list I'm on, so you can read it there.

By: mkultra

mkultra — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 11:34:00 -0800

Great, thanks!

By: Orange Goblin

Orange Goblin — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 12:05:35 -0800

Isn't that bit with an advert director? The photographer is a different guy that comes later and wants him to act like Roger Moore. Or did I imagine that?

By: O9scar

O9scar — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 13:49:14 -0800

Orange Goblin: you're right. The hipster ad director is the one ranting in (unsubtitled) Japanese. In a later scene a photographer rattles off names like James Bond and Frank Sinatra.

By: mkultra

mkultra — Thu, 05 Feb 2004 11:18:46 -0800

director, photographer... tomato, tomahto... ;)