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15 August 2009 4:14 PM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »

Tokyo! Directed by: Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, Bong Joon-ho Written by: Gabrielle Bell, Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, Bong Joon-ho Starring: Ayako Fujitani, Ayumi Ito, Ryo Kase, Denis Lavant, Jean-François Balmer, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yû Aoi Historically, short films have never really received much mainstream attention because, let's face it, you can't exactly put them in a movie theatre and charge full price for admission. They've mostly been relegated to the realm of film festivals and YouTube, but every now and then someone comes up with a clever way to package a collection of short films and sell it to the public. The 2007 film Paris, Je T'aime had a fairly successful (albeit limited) theatrical run collecting 18 shorts from such directors as The Coen Brothers, Tom Tykwer, Gus Van Sant and Wes Craven. It eventually spawned a sequel of sorts called, New York, I Love You. Following in the footsteps of these films comes Tokyo! »

- Sean

25 February 2009 | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »

      We have new clips in from Liberation Entertainment and Vitagraph Films' "Tokyo." They are as follows: · Interior Design clip: Dead Cat · Merde clip: Green Suit Guy · Shaking Tokyo clip: Blinding Light   All clips are in the same player above.   What are the films within "Tokyo" about?   "Interior Design" (Dir. Michel Gondry) Hiroko and Akira (Ayako Fujitani and Ryo Kase), a young couple, arrive in Tokyo to pursue their careers, moving in temporarily with Hiroko's old friend Akemi (Ayumi Ito), a career girl whose boyfriend quickly tires of the houseguests. Hiroko and Akira appear to have a solid and mutually supportive relationship that will seemingly carry them through any challenge. Akira, the young man, takes steps towards his ambition to become a filmmaker, but the woman is less sure of herself and gradually she begins to lose herself in the vast city. Ultimately she under-goes a surreal metamorphoses that gives her »

2 February 2009 1:59 PM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

A still from the "Merde" segment of Tokyo! directed by Leos Carax

Photo: Liberation Entertainment I am not a huge fan of Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Be Kind Rewind) as everyone else seems to be. I am also not a huge fan of Joon-ho Bong's The Host, which I am sure knocks me down another notch in the kitchy online movie world. On top of all that I have no idea who French helmer Leos Carax is, but the three are teaming together for a film called Tokyo! due out on March 6 in New York and March 20 in Los Angeles. The three directors will each have a segment in the film with storylines as follows: "Interior Design" (Dir. Michel Gondry)

Hiroko and Akira (Ayako Fujitani and Ryo Kase),a young couple, arrive in Tokyo to pursue their careers, moving in temporarily with Hiroko's old friend »

- Brad Brevet

3 articles from 2009