Tokyo! Critic Reviews
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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 the full review
An experiment that rarely works this well.Read the full review
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 the full review
A fun jaunt around the city and a quick tour of the preoccupations of three leading directors? Now there's a bargain.Read the full review
Both in its parts and in the sum of them Tokyo! is playfully and sometimes disorientingly apocalyptic.Read the full review
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 the full review
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 the full review
An uneven but enjoyable trio of films that take affectionate (and sometimes literal) aim at the Japanese capital.Read the full review
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 the full review
