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Tokyo!
EMAILPRINT Liberation Entertainment
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 18 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama
Written by:
Michel Gondry
Leos Carax
Joon-ho Bong
Directed by:
Michel Gondry
Leos Carax
Joon-ho Bong
Release Date:
Theatrical: March 6, 2009
DVD: June 30, 2009
Running Time: 112 minutes, Color
Origin: France | Japan | Germany | South Korea
Language(s): Japanese | French
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Jean-François Balmer, Ayako Fujitani, Julie Dreyfus, and Nao Omori
In Tokyo!, three of the world's greatest filmmakers come together for an omnibus triptych examining the nature of one unforgettable city as it's shaped by the disparate people who live, work (and even run amok!) inside one enormous, constantly evolving, densely populated Japanese megalopolis - the ravishing and inimitable Tokyo. Triptych, rhapsody, psychogeography, omnibus, urban valentine, freak show, mindwalk and many other things, Tokyo! is a fantasy in three movements that will make you see one of the world's greatest cities - if not any city - in unpredictable new ways. (Liberation Entertainment)
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What The Critics Said
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The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
The entries aren't equally strong, of course, but each comes from a sharp outsider's perspective, approaching Tokyo as a strange, mysterious organism that infects the populace.
Read Full Review >New York Post V.A. Musetto
Carax, who hadn't made a movie since "Pola X" in 1999 comes off best.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Reyhan Harmanci
An experiment that rarely works this well.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Tokyo! is a must-see for the Gondry segment, and a strange, diverting pleasure for the rest.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Kate Taylor
Perhaps it is inevitable as three foreign directors train their lenses on that unique island culture of the East that all three are propelled by fantasy or science fiction, and suggest more alienation from Tokyo than affection for the great city.
Read Full Review >Village Voice J. Hoberman
Mutants abound as each episode trips the light fantastic.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Mark Olsen
A fun jaunt around the city and a quick tour of the preoccupations of three leading directors? Now there's a bargain.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
Both in its parts and in the sum of them Tokyo! is playfully and sometimes disorientingly apocalyptic.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Maggie Lee
Though these vignettes appear frivolous and inconsequential when set beside the directors' features, they will tickle the funny bones of a general audience. A safe choice for fantastic fests, worldwide cinemas will open to the kind of audiences who bought tickets to see "Paris J'taime" or "To Each His Own Cinema."
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Falling somewhere between the horrors of Three … Extremes and the beauties of Eros, this triptych of short films set in and underscored by the titular megalopolis is a gorgeous, sprawling mess.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
If you've seen "Paris, je t'aime" or "New York Stories," you know the rate of return on these urban omnibuses is variable, and so it is here. Go in expecting minor pleasures and you'll be fine.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Do these films reflect actual aspects of modern Tokyo? The hikikomori epidemic is apparently real enough, but the other two segments seem more deliberately fantastical. The entertainment value? Medium to high: "Merde." Tokyo? Still standing.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Anyone looking for something original or unexpected should check out the trio of short films that comprise this entertaining ode to the titular city.
Read Full Review >Variety Justin Chang
An uneven but enjoyable trio of films that take affectionate (and sometimes literal) aim at the Japanese capital.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
This isn't an art house crowd pleaser along the lines of the 2006 "Paris, je t'aime," a freewheeling mixed bag of shorts made by the likes of Olivier Assayas, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuarón. Tokyo! demands more patience, patience that it sometimes doesn't deserve.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
Despite the stories' brief running times, they don't manage to generate much interest or make much sense.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Philip Kennicott
Tokyo, if anything, becomes more of a mystery after Tokyo! than it was before. That's the strength and curse of the film. If you can't find real connections between its disparate stories, you can always make them up yourself. But if that kind of film frustrates you, think twice before booking a ticket to Tokyo!
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Andrea Gronvall
The best, Shaking Tokyo, stars the versatile Teruyuki Kagawa.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 8.0 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
TC C gave it a6:
Interesting, although uncompelling. With the possible exception of Boon's, the films really do not have anything to do with Tokyo or Japan in particular, as you could have dropped the stories and characters in any dense urban locale and come away with the same outcome.
Joe G gave it a10:
Ingenious and visually appealing. 3 different tastes of film-making in a unique city=unforgettable movie experience. Just see it.
