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Tokyo!

Tôkyô!

2008

Bong Joon-ho, Leos Carax ...

Aoi Yû, Yosiyoshi Arakawa, Jean-François Balmer, Teruyuki Kagawa ...

6.6

1,561

Comedy. Drama. Fantasy Tokyo is a city of transitions in three short films. A young woman who finds her life useless experiences a metamorphosis. A disheveled Caucasian emerges from a manhole to face arrest, trial, and execution; he calls himself "Merde" and speaks a language only his look-alike attorney understands. A recluse experiences human contact when a pizza-delivery girl faints at his door during an earthquake. He needs to conquer fear to seek her out. [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The entertainment value? Medium to high (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Mark Olsen Los Angeles Times	"By turns playful and melancholy, provocative and sentimental, all three of the shorts that make up 'Tokyo!' seem like direct responses to the city itself"	POS
United States	Ty Burr Boston Globe	"Go in expecting minor pleasures and you'll be fine (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Maggie Lee The Hollywood Reporter	"Though these vignettes appear frivolous and inconsequential when set beside the directors' features, they will tickle the funny bones of a general audience"	NEU
United States	Reyhan Harmanci SFGATE	"The overall project succeeds at offering three tantalizing films for the price of one movie ticket. That's value."	POS
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"An unusually (and perhaps accidentally) tight anthology (...) The entries aren’t equally strong, of course, but each comes from a sharp outsider’s perspective"	POS

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