Map of the Sounds of Tokyo -- Film Review

May 28, 2009 An erotic thriller about a Japanese assassin who falls in love with her Spanish target, Isabel Coixet's "Map of the Sounds of Tokyo" is "Nikita" reincarnated with Tokyo eyes. Glossy cinematography and a Wong Kar Wai wannabe soundtrack conspire to rehash some cliched images of the Japanese metropolis, with little that Chris Marker, Wim Wenders, Jean-Pierre Limosin or Sofia Coppola haven't done before. "Map" will fulfill a certain semi-artsy, mostly European crowd's taste for upmarket exotica with its suggestive representation of a demure oriental beauty's sexual flowering under the experienced touch of a hot-blooded Hispanic.

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