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Release Date: March 6, 2009 (limited)
Starring: Jean-François Balmer, Ayako Fujitani, Julie Dreyfus, Nao Omori
Genre: Drama
Plot Summary:
"Tokyo!" is the dynamic new film by three
of world cinema's great visionaries: Michel Gondry ("Be Kind Rewind,"
"The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"), Leos Carax ("The Lovers
on the Bridge"), and Bong Joon-ho ("The Host"). A uniquely entertaining
modern-day triptych, "Tokyo!" explores Japan's multifaceted capital
city through three indelible stories: a Kafkaesque fable about a young
woman's bizarre physical transformation; an arch-punk
mini-monster-movie in which a man rises from the sewers to wreak havoc
on the city; and a beguiling tale about a hermit who ventures outside
in search of love.
Michel Gondry's playfully poignant "Interior Design" follows the
arrival in Tokyo of young filmmaker Akira and his supportive but
listless girlfriend Hiroko. Overstaying their welcome at a friend's
tiny apartment, they search in vain for a place of their own. With
Akira landing a job and his off-beat film career beginning to take off,
it's Hiroko who struggles to find a purpose. So when she awakens one
morning to find herself suddenly and strangely transformed, she's less
horrified than intrigued by the possibilities.
Leos Carax's first new film since 1999's "Pola X," "Merde" is a
kinetic, sharp-edged return. Carax favorite Denis Lavant ("The Lovers
on the Bridge") plays a wild-eyed monster-man who rises from the sewers
and brings hysterical anarchy to the streets of Tokyo. Eventually
arrested, he's put on trial and defended by a mysterious French lawyer
who somehow speaks the same strange language.
Bong Joon-ho's "Shaking Tokyo" tells of a man who self-describes as a
hikikomori – one who refuses to leave his apartment. Amidst towers of
books and empty take-out containers, his hermetic world is disrupted
when, during the shudders of an earthquake, an attractive pizza
deliverywoman collapses in his doorway.
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