| Cast |
|---|
| Ayako Fujitani, Yu Aoi, Denis Lavant |
| Producer |
| Anne Pernod-Sawada, Michiko Yoshitake, Masa Sawada |
| Editing |
| Erica Freed |
| Music |
| Dan Evans Farkas |
| Scriptwriter |
| Bong Joon-Ho, Leos Carax et Michel Gondry |
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Leos Carax et Michel Gondry, Bong Joon-Ho TOKYO !
Section
international competition
Genre
Comedy / Drama / Fantasy
Country
FR, JP, DE, KR
Length
110 minutes
Loosely inspired by Tokyo and filmed at the heart of the city, this movie is a poetic and atypical triptych by Michel Gondry, Leos Carax and Bong Joon-ho. In Interior Design, a young couple plans to move to Tokyo. Along with her ambi tious boyfriend, who is full of creative energy, a young woman who feels like she is loosing touch finds new meaning to her life after being transformed into... a chair! The author of The Science of Sleep (2006) is without a doubt a master at playing with the codes of surrealism. Absent from the screens since Pola X (1999), yet legendary ever since Les amants du Pont-Neuf (1991), Leos Carax returns here with a crazy and highly subversive contribution, interpreted by his favourite actor, Denis Lavant. A crazy Quasimodo look-a-like, Merde spreads terror among passers-by. Media cover age of his attacks becomes a manhunt the day he loses it and starts chucking the grenades he has found in the sew ers. Bong Joon-ho, who competed at the NIFFF last year with the amazing The Host (2006), closes the film with an SF fable entitled Shaking Tokyo. In a city shaken by earthquakes, a hikikomori (meaning a recluse who lives outside society) falls in love with the young pizza deliverer who fainted at his home. He goes to great lengths to see her again. A tragicomic critique of society, this film will appeal to fans of genre cinema as well as to movie-buffs feeling nostalgic for the spirit of May 68.