Watch: TOKYO! 2008 123movies, Full Movie Online – 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. Is he human? A recluse experiences human contact when a pizza-delivery girl faints at his door during an earthquake. He conquers fear to seek her out. A chair, a corpse, a hermit: sources of urban connection?.
Plot: Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians. After his arrest, he stands trial and lashes out at a hostile courtroom. A man who has resigned himself to a life of solitude reconsiders after meeting a charming pizza delivery woman. And finally, a happy young couple find themselves undergoing a series of frightening metamorphoses.
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Really glad I watched it!
Tokyo!: Looking for a unique and memorable cinematic experience? Look no further. This triptych of 1h50 goes by so fast! The final scene comes somewhat too quick but leaves you with a lot talk about. Here’s my ratings for the three shorts: Michel Gondry’s Interior Design: charming interesting simple story with a punch line that will make you fall off your chair! 7/10 Leo Carax’s Merde: Leo brought back his craziest character from the movie Holy Motors and this short had some dragging parts but was still better than the whole movie HM. 6/10 Finally, Bong Joon Ho’s Shaking Tokyo is the best of the three. A peculiar but very captivating story about isolation and agoraphobia. 8/10
Trippy yet Profound
When you watch a 3 in 1 movie like this, you run the risk of liking one story and not liking the other but TOKYO! overall is a trippy ride into three movie watching experience unlike you’ve ever seen before. You may not enjoy every one of them but… it will impress you. A great collaboration but ends up with the big question of ‘what’s the purpose of all this?’ You’re going to try to connect the theme for one with theme for the other because each movie does a good job of making you feel like they’re separate entity when they’re actually one big metaphorical imaginative trinity.If I had to choose, I’d say the first two segments are my favorite. Michel Gondry’s INTERIOR DESIGN is sad but in a really creative way. Gondry has been known to possess the ability to surprise us with weird visuals that compliment the characters and the story itself and INTERIOR DESIGN isn’t far from that either. The two leads are looking for apartment and you get to see some of the most interesting spaces, and just like some of those spaces, the female character feels useless like she has no purpose at all, the boyfriend’s accusation of her not having an ambition just makes things worse.
I like how the story implies that even the most supposedly useless thing around like a chair could be so useful.
There’s a part where the woman slowly turns into a chair and it is absolutely downright amazing for a movie like this to have such great visual effects. Whatever Gondry was smoking, it sure as hell worked.
The second movie, MERDE, by director Leos Carax, is quite possibly the funniest of all the the three. The story of the sewage monster man with his own language will shock you and crack you up at the same time. I don’t recommend eating while watching this cause some of you might throw up at the sight of his filthy look. It’s got enough humor and weirdness that will keep you curious as to what this is all about. Very entertaining especially the odd twist at the execution scene.
But it’s also a lesson in tolerance and understanding one another.
The third movie, SHAKING TOKYO, directed by Bong Joon-Ho, is probably my least favorite one but it doesn’t mean it couldn’t hold his own ground. It’s still a very original take on OCD, loneliness and the desperate attempt to connect. The actor who plays the man who isolates himself gives an outstanding performance without having to do much at all because it all works on his inner monologue. Will fear of uncertainties keep people locked up inside or is the only way to fight is to simply live without worry? I like how the movie plays with excessive light to illustrate discomfort that comes with taking chances in great lengths just to live again.
TOKYO! is a masterpiece that doesn’t beg for any reward, it simply wants to prove that film-making can be a simple as this and still be artful, profound, and entertaining all at once. And no matter how much we try to deny it, the fact remains.. people matter.
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Original Language ja
Runtime 1 hr 52 min (112 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Unrated
Genre Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Director Leos Carax, Michel Gondry, Bong Joon Ho
Writer Gabrielle Bell, Leos Carax, Michel Gondry
Actors Ayako Fujitani, Ryô Kase, Ayumi Ito
Country France, Japan, South Korea, Germany
Awards 2 wins & 3 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory HFR, Seoul, South Korea (segment “Shaking Tokyo”), Imagica Corporation, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan, video-de-poche (laboratory)
Film Length 3.08 m (Portugal, 35 mm)
Negative Format 35 mm (Fuji Eterna 400T 8583) (segment “Interior Design”), 35 mm (Kodak) (segment “Shaking Tokyo”), Video (HDV) (segment Merde)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (master format), HDV (source format) (segment Merde), Spherical (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm