Mystery Train is a 1989 anthology film written and directed by independent film director Jim Jarmusch and set in Memphis, Tennessee. The film comprises three different stories involving foreigners (a Japanese couple, an Italian widow, and a British criminal) unfolding over the course of the same night. They are linked by one run-down hotel run by a night clerk (played by Screamin' Jay Hawkins) and his dishevelled bellboy (Cinqué Lee), a scene fea...
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Mystery Train is a 1989 anthology film written and directed by independent film director Jim Jarmusch and set in Memphis, Tennessee. The film comprises three different stories involving foreigners (a Japanese couple, an Italian widow, and a British criminal) unfolding over the course of the same night. They are linked by one run-down hotel run by a night clerk (played by Screamin' Jay Hawkins) and his dishevelled bellboy (Cinqué Lee), a scene featuring Elvis Presley's "Blue Moon", and a gunshot.
The film was entered into the 1989 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the award for Best Artistic Achievement.
The first story, "Far From Yokohama", features a teenage couple from Yokohama, Japan—Mitsuko (Yuki Kudoh) and Jun (Masatoshi Nagase)—travelling across America and making a pilgrimage to Memphis, Tennessee. Mitsuko is obsessed with Elvis Presley, and even, in one scene "deduces" that Elvis was the basis for Madonna and the Statue of Liberty. Their story follows their holiday, including...
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