Last Life in the Universe

A story of two very different people coming together in the wake of personal tragedies, Last Life in the Universe stars Tadanobu Asano as Kenji, a quiet, bespectacled Japanese librarian living in Bangkok. Obsessed with suicide, he meticulously stages ways to kill himself, only to be interrupted ...more

In contrast to his more boisterous Mon-Rak Transistor, Pen-ek Ratanaruang's Last Life in the Universe is a much quieter film about modern loneliness. Divided by their languages (Kenji speaks Japanese, Noi speaks Thai) and personalities, the film's two protagonists are united in their desire for redemption and love. Ratanaruang is far from the first contemporary filmmaker to enter this territory, and his film has the atmosphere of any number of others in which lost souls are overwhelmed by the ...more