A refined, delicately poetic reverie on loss and memory.
VARIETY

Ichikawa brilliantly captures Murakami’s blend of whimsy, irony and melancholy, while finding intelligent and inventive ways to convert the author’s verbal idiosyncrasies to a visual medium.
CHANNEL FOUR

It’s a film for specialized tastes, quiet, delicate. But it suits those tastes beautifully.
CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Like a cultivated orchid, the delicate product of careful attention and an appreciation for fleeting beauty.
SEATTLE TIMES

Tony Takitani is an exquisite film, as elegant and precise as an impeccably cut diamond
LA TIMES

A gentle breeze of absurdism floats through this lyrically understated story. Its sadness is little short of magical.
NEW YORK OBSERVER

It’s a marvelously moody meditation, beautiful to look at and beautiful to ponder as the camera slowly pans from one scene to the next, framing life as still life.
WASHINGTON POST

Light on plot but heavy on mood, this Japanese import layers voice-over, fluid photography and a melancholy piano score to create a hypnotic poem about isolation and loss.
E!

A delicate wisp of a film with a surprisingly sharp sting.
NEW YORK TIMES

It’s a quiet dream of a movie, a vision of loneliness giving way to love, then to loneliness again; it’s like Vertigo remade in a sedately haunted style of Japanese lyricism.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

Tony Takitani conveys a powerfully tangible sense of loss and loneliness. In both concrete and existential terms, it’s a film that dwells on what the dead leave behind and how the living carry on.
VILLAGE VOICE

A quietly simple fable that hits you hardest after it’s over.
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

The camera effortlessly glides from scene to scene, revealing faultlessly framed shots that consist mostly of just one or two people, their backs often to the camera.
NEW YORK POST