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Rating: 8 stars

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Japan anthology tokyo sewer grenade dark comedy shibuya city loner transformation filmmaker movie theater

All movies seen on 02/17/2020

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Tokyo! (2008)

Directed by Michel Gondry, Bong Joon Ho, Leos Carax

Fantasy | Drama | Comedy

Overview

Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians. After his arrest, he stands trial and lashes out at a hostile courtroom. A man who has resigned himself to a life of solitude reconsiders after meeting a charming pizza delivery woman. And finally, a happy young couple find themselves undergoing a series of frightening metamorphoses.

Length 112 minutes

Actors

Ayako Fujitani | Ryo Kase | Ayumi Ito | Nao Omori | Satoshi Tsumabuki | Denden | Denis Lavant | Jean-François Balmer | Renji Ishibashi | Toshiyuki Kitami | Kyusaku Shimada | Teruyuki Kagawa | Yu Aoi | Naoto Takenaka | YosiYosi Arakawa | Hiroshi Yamamoto | Yutaka Matsushige | Ken Mitsuishi | Yoshiyuki Morishita | Kenji Kodama | Julie Dreyfus | Azusa Takehana | Aoi Nakabeppu | Nao Nekota | Andrée Damant

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

Excited to revisit this! Holy smokes Ayako Fujitani is in this?! Wow (I really should buy that Man From Reno Blu) Not sure if there’s a Blu for this but this DVD looks like shit. Basically looks like a DVD that was released in 2008 or 2009.

So wild to see “the creature from the sewer” stroll down Ginza, exactly where I was less than a year before this was filmed (December 2007). Note to self: revisit Holy Motors already.

Fuuuuuuuuuuck now I wanna go back to Tokyo. This entire thing plays so different to me now that I’ve been to Tokyo a couple more times since last viewing it. It really makes me fond of the city which after my last visit I was fine not having to come back for a while. But there are still so many areas / neighborhoods / pockets of Tokyo I have never seen. So this movie had me craving a return to go back to see some new places.

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