2009 · thriller · drama · romance
Map of the Sounds of Tokyo
Directed by Isabel Coixet1h 49m2009
A Japanese assassin falls in love with the Spanish wine seller she was hired to kill.
Our read: Map of the Sounds of Tokyo (2009) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive thriller · drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured thriller / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- measured
- bleak
- cold
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