Mystery train

Mystery train

2DCS12
Director:Jim Jarmush
Cast:Masatoši Nagase, Júki Kudó, Cinqué Lee, Nicoletta Braschi
Length:120 minutes
Genre:Comedy, Drama, Crime, Poetic

Director: Jim Jarmush  •  Scenario: Jim Jarmusch  •  Camera: Robby Müller  •  Music: John Lurie  •  Cast: Masatoši Nagase, Júki Kudó, Cinqué Lee, Nicoletta Braschi, Tom Noonan, Sara Driver, Richard Boes, Steve Buscemi, Vondie Curtis-Hall, D'Army Bailey, Tom Waits, Jodie Markell

Each of the three stories in Mystery Train has its own title and main characters. Jim Jarmusch's fourth film is an American-style homage to Italian and Japanese culture. The stories Far From Yokohama, The Ghost and Lost in Space do not overlap in plot, although they take place on the same night and in the same city, and all culminate in the same location (a rundown hotel in Memphis). Although their stories are independent, they interact humorously, as is gradually revealed over the course of the film.

Jim Jarmusch, an Ohio native, helped shape the modern form of American independent film. But the originality of his films, which he has been making for over thirty years, goes far beyond that territory. The director, for whom the journey is the image of human existence, dialogue the narrative principle and cultural differences the key theme, is involved in his films as a screenwriter and sometimes as an editor, producer or cinematographer. Jarmusch also puts great emphasis on the musical aspect of his films, which he helps to create with the help of important musical individuals. A collection of seven of his earlier films is being re-released in cinemas to coincide with the premiere of Jarmusch's new film Paterson. Beginning with his first feature, Permanent Vacation, and ending with the nearly a quarter-century later Coffee and Cigars, it includes works that have established Jarmusch as one of the most distinctive auteurs in contemporary cinema.

Length: 120 min

Year: 1989

Country of origin:

  • United states of America
  • Japan

Director: Jim Jarmush  •  Scenario: Jim Jarmusch  •  Camera: Robby Müller  •  Music: John Lurie  •  Cast: Masatoši Nagase, Júki Kudó, Cinqué Lee, Nicoletta Braschi, Tom Noonan, Sara Driver, Richard Boes, Steve Buscemi, Vondie Curtis-Hall, D'Army Bailey, Tom Waits, Jodie Markell

Each of the three stories in Mystery Train has its own title and main characters. Jim Jarmusch's fourth film is an American-style homage to Italian and Japanese culture. The stories Far From Yokohama, The Ghost and Lost in Space do not overlap in plot, although they take place on the same night and in the same city, and all culminate in the same location (a rundown hotel in Memphis). Although their stories are independent, they interact humorously, as is gradually revealed over the course of the film.

Jim Jarmusch, an Ohio native, helped shape the modern form of American independent film. But the originality of his films, which he has been making for over thirty years, goes far beyond that territory. The director, for whom the journey is the image of human existence, dialogue the narrative principle and cultural differences the key theme, is involved in his films as a screenwriter and sometimes as an editor, producer or cinematographer. Jarmusch also puts great emphasis on the musical aspect of his films, which he helps to create with the help of important musical individuals. A collection of seven of his earlier films is being re-released in cinemas to coincide with the premiere of Jarmusch's new film Paterson. Beginning with his first feature, Permanent Vacation, and ending with the nearly a quarter-century later Coffee and Cigars, it includes works that have established Jarmusch as one of the most distinctive auteurs in contemporary cinema.

Year: 1989

Country of origin:

  • United states of America
  • Japan