Lost in Translation (2003)

Directed by Sofia Coppola

Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation owes a lot to Wong Kar-Wai’s films—their sense of loneliness and images—as well as the premise of Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise.  However, it’s Bill Murray that gives Coppola’s film its own magic.  His connection with Scarlett Johansson's character can’t be described, only felt.

I'm not even sure if the top poster is an official movie poster, but i like it.

I also like this image:

On a side note, Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love takes cues from a movie set in Japan, Hiroshima Mon Amor.
Film reviews in fifty words (2011).

After Life (1998)

Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda

A documentary-style film about people at a waiting station for the dead (social services-like offices) and its employees. There, they have to choose a single memory that they will take with them to eternity. Sounds impossible? Not if you’re Japanese-filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda, and you make one of cinema’s true miracles.

50-word film reviews from 2006.