Trailer - Map of the Sounds of Tokyo (Night Tokyo Day)

Isabel Coixet’s Map of the Sounds of Tokyo is being theatrically released under the title “Night Tokyo Day” in Japan in a little over a month, and the Japanese distributor Dingo has released a new trailer.

The film, which premiered at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, stars Rinko Kikuchi as a solitary girl in Tokyo named Ryu who leads a double life as both a fish market worker and hit-woman. When Midori, the daughter of a powerful impresario named Nagara (Takeo Nakahara), commits suicide, his employee (Hideo Sakaki) hires Ryu to kill the man believed responsible for Midori’s death—a spaniard named David (Sergi López). Meanwhile, a sound engineer (Min Tanaka) obsessed with the sounds of the city and fascinated by Ryu acts as narrator as an unlikely love affair develops between the assassin and her mark.

“Map of the Sounds of Tokyo” will be released in Japan on September 11, 2010. Those in the US can catch the film On Demand from August 25th, courtesy of IFC Films. There’s also a listing for it up at Netflix, so it stands to reason that a streaming or DVD release will be coming in the near future.

Source: Official website [JP]