Tokyo!
Tokyo is a 2008 anthology film containing three segments written by three nonJapanese directors, all of which were filmed in Tokyo, Japan. Michel Gondry directed Interior Design, Leos Carax directed Merde, and Bong Joonho directed Shaking Tokyo.
Hiroko and Akira Ayako Fujitani and Ry Kase are a young couple from the provinces who arrive in Tokyo with limited funds, shortterm lodging and what appears to be a solid and mutually supportive relationship that will seemingly carry them through any challenge. Akira is an aspiring filmmaker whose debut feature will soon screen in the city and hopefully lead to a more solid career in the interim, he lands work wrapping gifts at a local department store. After securing shortterm housing in the cramped studio apartment of old school chum Akemi Ayumi Ito a career girl with a demanding boyfriend who grows weary of Akemis houseguests Hiroko hits the streets of Tokyo in search of a suitable apartment, finding a series of ratinfested hovels that neither she nor Akira can afford on their limited salaries. After Akiras film screens to dubious acclaim, one spectator informs Hiroko of the inherent struggles in relationships between creative types often, one half of a couple feels invisible, useless, or unappreciated, something Hiroko relates to wholeheartedly in the wake of her numerous trials and tribulations in the unfamiliar city of Tokyo. She starts to question her role in the relationship, resulting in a startling transformation in which she turns into a wooden chair, and is taken in by a young man.Merde French for shit is the name given to an unkempt, gibberishspewing subterranean creature of the Tokyo sewers, played by Denis Lavant, who rises from the underground lair where he dwells to attack unsuspecting locals in increasingly brazen and terrifying ways he steals cash and cigarettes from passersby, frightens old women and salaciously licks schoolgirls, resulting in a televised media frenzy that creates mounting hysteria among the Tokyo populace. After discovering an arsenal of hand grenades in his underground lair, Merde slips into fullon assault mode, hurling the munitions at random citizens and creating a Godzillalike atmosphere of urban terror, which the media
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