Lost in Translation Filming Locations: Kabuki-cho (Shinjuku)
<p>After the main title card, the film opens with a shot of a clearly jetlagged Bob Harris (Bill Murray) in a taxi, his head pressed up against the window in the rear left passenger seat. The interior of the taxi becomes awash in reflections of city lights and street noise, waking Bob. We then assume his view as he looks out from the taxi into the pulsing neon of Shinjuku’s Kabuki-cho entertainment district. We see glimpses of young Japanese walking along the sidewalks and the camera pans to the large neon signboards that crowd the main entrance to Kabuki-cho on Yasukuni-dori (Yasukuni Street).</p>
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