I was rabidly reading a list of some of the films that are being screened at Cannes 2009 and one title caught my eye, a film called MAP OF THE SOUNDS OF TOKYO.
Heres the synopsis: “A solitary young Japanese woman, who works in a fish market at night and occasionally as a hired killer, is contracted to assassinate a Spanish man, who’s blamed for the suicide of a rich businessman’s daughter. Meanwhile, a sound engineer, who’s fascinated by the woman and the sounds of Tokyo, tracks the girl through the city.”
Hmmmmm… heres the imdb page and the official film site and heres also hoping it isn’t like that movie Blow Out where John Travolta holds a bare shotgun mic in his fingers on a windy bridge while listening to some distant but vitally important plot detail….
intriguing film with such a suggesting title; thanks for posting, I will check it out… it is from Isabel Coixet, a quite known Spanish director (at least there)… btw, I didn´t know about that film ‘Blow Out’, it seems very-very similar to Antonioni´s ‘Blow-Up’ (1966)…with a soundman ‘accidental-detective’ instead of a photographer though… this one doesn´t seem so cool but Antonioni´s is great…
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060176/
and of course, somehow related to ‘The Conversation’, by Coppola… nice film too…
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071360/