Earthquake Bird
2019 · Movie · R · 107 min · ★ 5.9 · 50% critics
In late-1980s Tokyo, a foreign translator starts a passionate relationship with a mysterious photographer. As her past weighs on her and tensions rise around a close friendship, she’s pulled into a slow-building psychological mystery filled with doubt, guilt, and uneasy questions about what really happened.
Based on The Earthquake Bird
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Details
- Years
- 2019
- Release date
- 2019-11-01
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Max quality
- UHD
- Critic score
- 50/100
- TMDB rating
- 5.9/10 (473 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a moody, slow-burn psychological mystery with strong acting and an immersive Tokyo setting, similar to Greta; Not for you if you need fast pacing, clear answers early, or lots of action.
Pros: strong lead performance; beautiful Japanese locations; tense slow-burn mood | Cons: very slow pacing; thin character development; confusing story beats
Themes
- based on novel or book
- love triangle
- photographer
- interracial relationship
- tokyo, japan
- japanese man
- neo-noir
- 1980s
- traumatized woman
Cast & crew
Alicia Vikander
as Lucy Fly
Riley Keough
as Lily Bridges
Naoki Kobayashi
as Teiji Matsuda
Kiki Sukezane
as Natsuko
Yoshiko Sakuma
as Mrs. Yamamoto
Ken Yamamura
as Det. Oguchi
Kazuhiro Muroyama
as Det. Kameyama
Crystal Kay
as Singer
Akiko Iwase
as Ms. Katō
Jack Huston
as Bob Johnson
Directed by Wash Westmoreland