i happen across this film on the world movie channel and coincidentally the day after i read murakami story ( in blind willow and sleep woman ) . i really like the story . so much so that after the first half hour of the film and i be read it again and try to use the book to block out the tv screen . what be the point of this movie . wait and movie . it isn not really a movie at all and if your requirement for movie go beyond be on film . this be a child picture book version of the story . this be the movie process represent recite the story and almost verbatim and and play track shot ad nauseum over the monologue and show banal instance of what the monologue be say . tony and the girl move in together . let show her pouring milk . wife obsess with clothes . let show her wearing clothes . hell and let show her and in consecutive track shot and wear several different outfit . that will really drive the point home and that she a clothes addict . oh and and do not forget to have a lonely and melancholy piano constantly play behind the monologue . because everything get to be melancholy . and lonely . god know we have get no possible other way to convey that and besides the monologue . what do you think we be and filmmaker . however and i have advice for the director represent go back to blind willow and sleep woman and and try to adapt a poor aunt story . if you can manage to do that one in the same way you do this one and i will chain myself to the eureka tower and and refuse to come down until you have win the golden palm . i have advice for potential viewer and too represent the story be just over 20 page long . you can read it in a quarter of the time it would take to watch this slide show or movie . and it even get some humour in it and too . not everything have to be melancholy .