Ten Years after Lost in Translation was Filmed in Tokyo, My Written Thoughts Friends.

Ten years since Lost in Translation was filmed here in Tokyo Town. That's a long time friends. And yet it still feels like yesterday.

Friends, the rumors are that the characters in Lost in Translation are based on real people in the 90s and 00s who lived in Tokyo Town. Well friends, they are not based on me, but there have been a few people just like them over the decades. The great thing about this film is that there aint no other white people in Tokyo except the characters and the two blowhards at the bar, and friends, there aint not too many of these in Tokyo these days either, because they all mostly live in Hong-Kong now after the big shake on 3/11.

Much like BOB HARRIS played by Bill Murray., who shows every inch of his years in this film all over his face, Tommy Lee Jones did print ads for Suntory Boss coffee, and also many television commercials as you can see if you do a search on the YouTube. Both Bill and Tommy Lee have the scars and both make excellent commercials friends. Personally I like the whiskey better than the coffee.

Rain in the Streets of Tokyo

Cameron Diaz used to hang out in Tokyo back before her 20s, around Roppongi and Roppongi Hills and is the alleged inspiration for the blonde character, Ribisi's character is based upon the hipsters that come to Tokyo for 5 minutes to do their work in the entertainment industry, they come and go friends, there are many of these "hipster cool cats" who think they are a great gift to Japan, and well friends, they are not, but they sure are entertaining to watch.

Scarlet's character CHARLOTTE is based upon the people who come to Japan without a clue what happens here, either with an SO or alone, and who find it bewildering and interesting without knowing what goes on, I meet a lot of girls like this here.

The whole movie is an inspiration friends, and made 10 years ago back when Tokyo was safe to live in, pre 3/11.

The film is the inspiration that launched tens of thousands of Bachelor of Useless Degree grads into Japan, they came friends, in the 00s, and they came to teach at the ESL "sweatshops" you can read about here in Tokyo Town at the forum and on the J blogosphere. 

So many of these people wanted to live like Bob and Charlotte, but they do not friends. They did not find the Lost in Translation dream. No Sir, all they find is that they are barely making 2000 dollars a month and can eat cat food from konbinis that no one in the film ate, until they realized five or ten years later that they have wasted time in Japan and have no real career here. It is very sad friends, they came inspired and left demoralized.

THERE'S GOTTA BE 'MORE THAN THIS IN TOKYO, MORE THAN WORKING AS A "RETARDED ESL CHIMP" - WELL THERE IS - BUT ONLY IF YOU ARE BOB HARRIS

AND THERE AINT NONE OF YOU AROUND TOKYO TOWN LIKE BOB HARRIS FRIENDS.

Every night, there are tourists who come to Tokyo and go to the Park Hyatt bar, to try to live the Lost in Translation dream, and friends they do not find it either. They go to the New York bar here, and I see them, I hear them, and even meet them. They feel that their five days in Tokyo means they experience the Tokyo, well friends, they are wrong also. The first 40 years in Tokyo are the hardest friend, so they do not get the real LIT experience, because they are not Bob Harris and did not make 2 million dollars by acting in a commercial.

So friends, the dreams of tens of thousands of Wapanese Wannabes were launched by this film, and shattered too. It is quite interested to see that Bob and Charlotte were not depicted giving each other head or ****ing each other on screen, however, that probably did happen in the movie, just not on film.

So ten years friends, it came and went so quickly and many of us here didn't even see the film until 2005 or some year after it was released in my case I don't think I have watched the whole film.

LOST IN TRANSLATION - LIFE IN TOKYO 

BOB HARRIS STYLE

JUST LIKE HONEY FRIENDS, 

THIS FILM IS SWEET AND STICKY

 LIKE CHARLOTTE'S ***** LIPS

Tokyo is Tokyo friends, ten years is ten years, and ten years on not a lot has changed.

Take care friends and please check the YouTube channel and my personal one hour review of Lost in Translation (Part 1 is up already).