A road movie without a car, or a road, Ramblers continues director Nobuhiro Yamashita's (No One's Ark) series of deadpan comedies of youth trying to find a future, or at least a clue. Acclaimed as Japan's Jim Jarmusch, Yamashita makes films about his generation, but the characters contained therein-hapless people caught in dead-end towns, with dead-end jobs and no end of embarrassments-remain universally endearing. Two young slackers travel to a small tourist town to meet a mutual friend, but when the friend never arrives the two strangers find themselves stranded. Stuck on their own private lonely planets, too lazy to explore, they instead fantasize about movies they're never going to make, schemes they're never going to begin, and girls they're certainly never going to seduce. Hapless encounters with locals stress their comical inability to fit in; they are strangers in a strange land, with everywhere to go but nowhere to stay, dreaming of something better, too lost to find it.