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Submit Your ReviewWritten and directed by the ever-unpredictable Jim Jarmusch, Mystery Train is comprised of three short anecdotes involving foreign tourists in Tennessee. Each story is set in a fleabag Memphis hotel which has been redressed as a "tribute" to Elvis Presley. Story #1 involves two Japanese tourists ...more
MPAA Rating: R | Year: 1989 | Running Time: 115 minutes
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Mystery Train is one of Jim Jarmusch's wittiest and most perceptive examinations of how America looks to outsiders, as a variety of visitors, from overseas and out-of-town, arrive in Memphis, the birthplace of rockabilly music, Sun Records, and Elvis Presley, whose high-octane music and languid rhythms make it seem exotic even to folks from neighboring states. To a young Japanese couple (Masatoshi Nagase and Youki Kudoh), Memphis is a promised land, where their heroes Elvis and Carl Perkins once ...more
- Masatoshi Nagase - Jun
- Youki Kudoh - Mitzuko
- Nicoletta Braschi - Luisa
- Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Night Clerk
- Cinqué Lee - Bellboy
- Elizabeth Bracco - Dee Dee
- Rufus Thomas - Man in Station
- Joe Strummer - Johnny
- Richard Boes - Second Man in Diner
- Joshua Elvis Hoch - Tourist Studio Guide
- Karen Longwell
- Rockets Redglare - Liquor Store Clerk
- Pat Hoch - Tourist Family
- Reginald Freeman - Conductor
- Jim Jarmusch - Director
- Rudd Simmons - Producer
- Jim Stark - Producer
- Jim Jarmusch - Screenwriter
- Carol Wood - Costume Designer
- Melody London - Editor
- John Lurie - Composer (Music Score)
- Robert Laden - Makeup
- Meredith Soupios - Makeup
- Dan Bishop - Production Designer
- Robby Müller - Cinematographer
- Kathie Hersch - Production Manager
- Dianna Freas - Set Designer
- Gary King - Special Effects
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