Storyline
Tokyo, Japan, 1989. Lucy Fly, a foreigner who works as a translator, begins a passionate relationship with Teiji, a mysterious man obsessed with photography.
Directors
Cast
Jack Huston, Riley Keough, Alicia Vikander, Ken Yamamura, Akiko Iwase, Naoki Kobayashi, Kiki Sukezane, Yoshiko Sakuma, Kazuhiro Muroyama, Crystal Kay, Kenichi Masuda, Chiaki Kawamo, Naomi Urushibara, Tomoyasu Sakata, Shozo Sasaki, Chiaki Yamamoto, Chie Izumiyama, Riku Takahashi, Saya Yoshida, Yui Hosokawa, Misa Matsuoka, Adelaide Young, Nikita Savilov, William Bylesjoe, Ruben Leiram, Isac Leiram, Zachary Miller, Trevor Miller, Alex Milewski, Yaeko Kimura, Maiko Ishii, Sadako Saida, Burger Hasegawa
Trailer
Reviews
70
Everyone here appears to be revelling in the juicy opportunities Earthquake Bird brings to hit up our memories of everything from Fatal Attraction to Single White Female.
60
Westmoreland approaches the project every bit as respectful toward Japanese customs as Jones was, although only a percentage of her insights carry over to the film. They’re still there, mind you, but more difficult to detect.
60
I was less taken with the wait-is-this-really-happening moments that tend to undermine the emotional currency in which the drama is presented to us. Some real tremors, though.
58
While too muddled and morose to hold together as a psychosexual thriller, Wash Westmoreland’s Earthquake Bird can be compelling for how it both explores and subverts the idea that everyone gets a little bit lost in translation.
50
This solidly crafted Ridley Scott production is sprinkled with classy ingredients, including Alicia Vikander as headline star. But it is also a fairly flat treatment of over-familiar plot elements, and fatally low on the key psycho-thriller elements of suspense, surprise and dread.
