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Nov 17, 1989 · Mystery Train: Directed by Jim Jarmusch. With Masatoshi Nagase, Yûki Kudô, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Cinqué Lee. Three stories are connected by a Memphis hotel and the spirit of Elvis Presley.
- (31K)
- Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Jim Jarmusch
- 1989-11-17
Mystery Train is a 1989 comedy-drama anthology film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch and set in Memphis, Tennessee. The film is a triptych of stories involving foreign protagonists, unfolding over the course of the same night. "Far from Yokohama" features a Japanese couple ( Youki Kudoh and Masatoshi Nagase) on a cultural pilgrimage, "A ...
In Memphis, Tennessee, over the course of a single night, the Arcade Hotel, run by an eccentric night clerk and a clueless bellboy, is visited by a young Japanese couple traveling in search of the roots of rock; an Italian woman in mourning who stumbles upon a fleeing charlatan girl; and a comical trio of accidental thieves looking for a place to hide.
- (282)
- Jim Jarmusch
- R
- 6
A seedy hotel in Memphis, Tennessee, provides the backdrop for three separate tales, featuring everything from a kitsch-obsessed Japanese couple (Masatoshi Nagase, Yûki Kudô) to a trio of ...
- (36)
- Jim Jarmusch
- R
- Masatoshi Nagase
Jan 26, 1990 · Mystery train. The two most evocative words in the language, suggesting streamliners into the night and strangers whose eyes meet in the club car as the train's rhythm creates an erotic reverie. But trains are no longer quite like that in America, and the opening shots of Jim Jarmusch's new film show two young Japanese tourists in a faded Amtrak coach, listening to their Walkmans as the train ...
Jul 21, 2010 · At nights in the summertime I heard lonesome whistles blowing, and dreamed of taking the train to the future. To romance. To the rest of my life. Or just simply out of town. Trains embody the fact of travel, the sense of moving through time and space and day and night. Airplanes are elevators whose doors close and then open in another city. The two Japanese kids in Jim Jarmusch's "Mystery ...
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Pivoting around the low-rent and almost dilapidated Arcade Hotel, the strange stories of four visitors unwittingly intertwine, as the aloof couple of Japanese teenagers--Mitsuko, who yearns to visit Graceland, and Jun, a sad-faced die-hard fan of Carl Perkins --arrive in the Tennessee ghost town, in "Far from Yokohama".
