and the widow, who is flying in from Japan. She must wrestle his body into the Jeep, take it to a small town, find Smithers the undertaker ("We'll put it in the cold room so it doesn't go off"), and deal with the police, the report, her colleagues. Then, in a moment of heedless fun, he has an absurd accident and dies. What they have is not merely sex, yet not love it is more like a means of communication to show relief and acceptance. They're strangers with a thousand words between them, in the middle of a limitless empty place. What future do they have? None, really, even before she sees the photograph of his wife and family in his billfold. There is something I want you to experience for yourself. That night in a motel, they make love undressing, she puts on his pants before walking over to the bed.Īnd now you must put the review aside, if you plan to see the movie. But during the long cold night (at one point she shifts to put her back against his, for warmth), something rotates in his consciousness, and the next day there are scenes in which each looks at the other for a long time, thinking, sensing, beginning to like. He doesn't know she's a geologist, and treats her like his driver (he lets her wrestle his heavy suitcase into the Jeep). The Japanese man is not fluent in English, but he knows a great many more words than he first reveals. This sounds like some sort of survival adventure, but even in the moments of despair in the desert, "Japanese Story" is about characters, not plot. Frequently." Their Jeep gets mired in the fine powder of the red earth, they can't drive it out or dig it out, they spend a cold night around a campfire, and she is very, very angry, because Tachibana got them into this mess, and it looks as if they may die, and he refuses to use his cell phone because of shame: Having caused their trouble, he refuses to admit it to his colleagues.
There's only a one-track dirt road, and "People die in this desert. Then he wants to drive on, farther, into the vastness. Sandy flies with him to a dorp town in the interior, rents a Jeep and shows him the mine: A massive hole in the ground whose terraces remind him of a Mayan temple.
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