This gentle comedy with a warm centre, follows two unhappy Americans who find solace in each other in Tokyo, a place where the absurd and the strange seems the norm.

Bill Murray plays an emotionally weary movie star who has flown in to do a commercial for a whisky advertisement and Scarlett Johansson is the melancholic newly wed he keeps bumping into at the hotel bar.

Murray does his deadpan shtick, but he does it so well here that you can't help but go with him.

Writer/director Sofia Coppola has inherited her father Francis Ford's storytelling ability, managing the blooming relationship between an unlikely pair with finesse.

She also shares his ravishing cinematic style, capturing the bright lights of Tokyo in their sometimes garish and alien, sometimes exciting modernity.