World's 12 Best Travel Movies

Some countries are harder to understand than others, no matter whether the trains run on time, men and women fall in love, and dogs are considered cute pets. Where better to explore the otherness of travel and foreign places than Japan, an enduring mystery to most of the world? Scarlett Johansson and Bill Murray are a brilliantly left-field combination in the leading roles, one a demure 20-something questioning her new marriage, the other an aging actor hovering on the edge of a midlife crisis during a $2 million whisky promotion. Cross-cultural encounters between East, West, and two generations abound in this moving story of loneliness, longing, and alienation. Watch out for the glamorous woman in black telling Murray to "lip my stockings!"