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Mystery Train
Synopsis
Written 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 whose devotion to Elvis blinds them of everything around them. Story #2 finds eternal victim Nicoletta Braschi sharing a room with stone-broke Elizabeth Bracco and having her problems solved by a spectral vision of The King. And story #3 offers the further misadventures of Bracco, her no-good boyfriend and her dysfunctional family. Any film that features Screamin' Jay Hawkins as a hotel clerk has us squarely in its pocket.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Full Credits
  • Director:
    Jim Jarmusch,
  • Writer:
    Jim Jarmusch,
  • Producer:
    Jim Stark,
  • Cinematographer:
    Robby Müller,
  • Editor:
    Melody London,
  • Executive Producer:
    Kunijiro Hirata, Hideaki Suda,
  • Cast:
    Nicoletta Braschi, Youki Kudoh, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Cinqué Lee, Rufus Thomas, Masatoshi Nagase, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Nicoletta Braschi,
  • Associate Producer:
    Demetra J. MacBride,
  • Assistant Editor:
    Jay Rabinowitz,
  • First Assistant Director:
    Eric Heffron,
  • Second Assistant Director:
    Constance L. Hoy,
  • Line Producer:
    Rudd Simmons,
  • Supervising Sound Editor:
    Robert Hein,
  • Script Supervisor:
    Lisa Krueger, Elisabeth Myles,
  • Boom Operator:
    Mark Goodermote,
  • First Assistant Camera:
    Chris Lombardi,
  • Location Manager:
    Michael Berry,
  • Production Coordinator:
    Georgia Kacandes,
  • Property Master:
    Jeff Butcher,
  • Sound Effects Editor:
    Eugene Gearty,
  • Makeup Artist:
    Robert Laden,
  • Screenplay:
    Jim Jarmusch,
  • ADR Editor:
    Lori Kornspun,
  • Special Props:
    Takuya Matsuyama,
  • Thanks:
    Howard Brookner, Don Donigi, Becky Dinstuhl, Gary Hardy, Seth Gelblum, Hiromasa Shimada, Masahiro Inbe, Phil Sodano, Irwin Young, Bill Nisselson, Fumio Kurokawa, Roberto Benigni, Al Gore,
  • Best Boy Grip:
    Elan Yaari, Melvin Pukowsky,
  • Still Photographer:
    Masayoshi Sukita, Mark Higashino,
  • Production Design:
    Dan Bishop,
  • Musician:
    Tony Garnier, Doug Bowne, John Lurie, Marc Ribot,
  • Hair Supervisor:
    Meredith Soupios,
  • Local Casting:
    Novella Smith,
  • Translator:
    Kazuki Ōmori, Ian MacDougall,
  • Sound Mixer:
    Drew Kunin,
  • Costume Designer:
    Carol Wood,
  • Apprentice Sound Editor:
    Jeanne Atkin, Deborah Martin,
  • Location Sound Mixer:
    Drew Kunin,
  • Original Music Composer:
    John Lurie,
  • Electrician:
    Robert O'Bleness, David Mackay, Naomi Wise, Eric Wilson,
  • Color Timer:
    Gene Zippo,
  • Key Set Production Assistant:
    Todd Pfeiffer,
  • Music Coordinator:
    Valerie Goodman,
  • Production Manager:
    Kathie Hersch,
  • Assistant Property Master:
    Tom Mittlestadt,
  • Producer's Assistant:
    Molly Bradford,
  • Second Assistant Camera:
    Katherine M. Butler,
  • Legal Services:
    Richard Heller,
  • Casting:
    Novella Smith, Kohta Yamada, Noriko Murao,
  • Key Grip:
    Paul Ferrara,
  • Construction Manager:
    Eric Gruber,
  • Negative Cutter:
    Tim Brennan,
  • Special Effects Coordinator:
    Gary L. King,
  • Assistant Production Manager:
    Beth Bernstein,
  • Wardrobe Supervisor:
    Daryl Kerrigan,
  • Production Assistant:
    Tina Klein, Peggy Craven, Jamaine Bell, Paul Snow, Anna Roome, Sherman Willmot, Noël Wiggins, Jeff Taylor,
  • Foley Artist:
    Marko Costanzo,
  • Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
    Rick Dior,
  • Gaffer:
    Christopher Porter,
  • Dialogue Editor:
    Sylvia Waliga, Ahmad Shirazi, Frank Kern, Gina Alfano,
  • Assistant Location Manager:
    Donna Hester, Jan Walker,
  • Production Office Coordinator:
    Kerry Sherin,
  • Makeup Supervisor:
    Meredith Soupios,
  • Set Decoration:
    Dianna Freas,
  • Assistant Sound Editor:
    Mary Hickey,
  • Additional Grip:
    Paul Leonard,

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