You have to like quiet movies to love this one but it's a masterpiece. The cinematography in Japan alone is worth the price of admission but Bill Murray has never been better-- no not even in Groundhogs Day, another first rate film-- and his young co-star is equally wonderful. It's a tender true story of what can happen when two strangers connect in an unlikely place and time, an improbable and unconsummated love story with a great mysterious ending. (what does he whisper to her?) Beautiful to watch. Must see.