Tokyo! As Seen By Foreign Filmakers

[Mulboyne]

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Yomiuri: Tokyo - A view from the outside, and within
Looking at Tokyo through the eyes of foreign directors always manages to cast a new and artistic light on the residents of the megapolis. Three directors--from France, South Korea and the United States--each take a shot at portraying the lives and pulse of Tokyoites in their respective vignettes from Tokyo! (opens Aug. 16)...French director Michel Gondry, who lives in New York, says his impression of Tokyo is that everything is fast-paced--albeit slower than New York--while the city itself is very quiet..."Interior Design"...features the quiet side of Tokyo. He portrays the city as gloomy and muggy, rather than crowded and energetic...When South Korean director Bong Joon Ho...was approached...the subject that he chose was serious: hikikomori, or social withdrawal...Despite the serious subject, "Shaking Tokyo" is comical and humorous, and as the title suggests, Bong doesn't forget to include a "quake" in the film...French director Leos Carax's "Merde" is the most disturbing and eccentric movie of the three...A weird humanlike "creature" (Denis Lavant) in a green suit and speaking gibberish suddenly appears from the sewer. He pushes pedestrians away as he strides around a Ginza street and steals money from people and eats it. He lives on bank notes and chrysanthemums, and sleeps naked in the dark sewer. One day on a Shibuya street, he randomly assaults pedestrians with hand grenades, which he found in his den. He is soon captured and put on trial...The creature says the attack was because he doesn't like humans, especially Japanese, whose eyes remind him of the shape of female genitalia...more...

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There are two other clips from the film here and here.

[Taro Toporific]

Tokyo! .....French director Michel Gondry, who lives in New York, says his impression of Tokyo is that everything is fast-paced ...while[SIZE="4"] the city itself is very quiet.[/SIZE]....

[Ptyx]

I really want to see this. Carax is my favorite french filmaker still working today by far.

[Samurai_Jerk]

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[2triky]

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I actually saw this series of the short films...the second short film presented was truly bizarre. The first and the third were much more enjoyable.