I rewatched Lost in Translation and found a rare sneaker hiding in plain sight

On Saturday, my wife and I were having a particularly chill one. One of those rare weekends with absolutely nothing planned. No lunch, no friends, no reason to leave the house.

So I did what I always do when we can't decide what to watch: scrolled through Netflix until something vaguely familiar felt right. I landed on Lost in Translation. I hadn't seen it in about six or seven years, and as someone who's spent the better part of two decades spotting sneakers in the wild, I wasn't expecting Sofia Coppola's 2003 classic to throw up one of Nike's deepest cuts.

The film follows Bob Harris (Bill Murray), a washed-up actor in Tokyo to shoot a whisky ad, and Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), a recent Yale graduate trying to figure out what the hell she's doing with her life. They meet, drift around the city together, and that's basically it. It's one of those movies where not much happens, but everything happens.

Bob Harris, played by Bill Murray, in the hospital scene

About halfway through, Charlotte hurts her toe. Bob takes her to the hospital, sits down in the waiting room, and the camera pulls back. That's when I noticed the trainers. I paused it, rewound, got up off the sofa, and walked closer to the telly just to make sure. Yep – he was wearing the HTM x Nike Air Woven in ‘Dark Mocha’.

This is a true IYKYK link-up. The Air Woven first came out in 2000, decked out with an interlaced upper that – to this day – is still unlike anything else out there. Then in 2002, the HTM collab dropped – that's with streetwear legend Hiroshi Fujiwara, Swoosh designer Tinker Hatfield, and Nike's very own Mark Parker. Together, they formed the holy trinity that was HTM. Only 1,500 pairs of the ‘Dark Mocha’ were made, so they're basically impossible to find now even if you're digging through places like eBay or Goat or StockX .

Which is why it felt so random seeing them on Harris. He's wearing them with a suit, for crying out loud. Nothing about his fit suggests he's into one of rarest trainers on the planet. But then again, maybe that's the point.

HTM x Nike Air Woven ‘Dark Mocha’