Like Up In The Air and Juno, this film is primarily about the young person adrift in an adult world. Interestingly that each of those movies were directed by younger version of established directors: Reitman (Jason) and Coppola (Sophia).
Bill Murray is in Tokyo shooting a commercial. Washed up in all senses of the word. A stranger in a strange land, he meets Scarlett Johansson who is also running from her own marital problems. They connect platonically in the intimate way of people that will probably never see one another again. They float through Tokyo not really every knowing anyone or anything about the place.
Tokyo is the star of the show in a limited role. It's designed to be as faceless as any traveling city might be.
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