An excellent little movie. The focal relationship, between Bill Murray's washed-up, middle-aged actor and Scarlett Johansson's misplaced, uncertain young woman, always feels perfectly natural and organic. Their interplay is never strained or actorly. And director Sofia Coppola makes good use of the alien city of Tokyo as a reflective backdrop for the main characters' alienation. Oh, yeah--it has some nice laughs, too.
