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Looking for a 'real' good Tokyo movie...

posted 15 years ago by undertaker229
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Just came back from Tokyo. The city. And wanted to see this movie, in order to fly again with my imagination to that magical, machinery-like, deep hearted place.

Watched this movie and it's really terrible. Awful. Doesnt do any justice to the name of the film. Even "Tokyo Gore Police" tells you more about Tokyo, the city, the people, their fears, fetishes and traumas, than "Tokyo!".

(well the third story wasnt too bad, but in all, a bad movie as a whole)

Besides "Tokyo Monogatari", "Lost in Translation", "Tokyo Godfathers", "Shaberedomo Shaberedomo", "Always" what other movies do you think that DO show some "essence" of the city, something of its people, of its way of life (if you can call that loved frenzy a "life", in the sense we know :)??

Greetings

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[–] Nephilim-6 15 years ago

Try:

Tokyo Sora
Bounce KO Gals
Cafe Lumiere

May have more later but too tired to think now.

Did you ever notice that people who believe in creationism look really un-evolved? - Bill Hicks

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[–] otaku_ariane 15 years ago

I agree with you. I lived in Tokyo in 2008 and long to see movies that make me travel there again... «Tokyo!» was quite deceiving for that

I would add two recent movies to the list:
CHERRY BLOSSOM, called KIRSCHBLUTEN-HANAMI on IMDB
and
TENTEN, also called ADRIFT IN TOKYO in it's american release.

[–] undertaker229 15 years ago

Thanks for all the input... I'll check them out.

I miss Tokyo!

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[–] athena-70 15 years ago

Sans Soleil is probably the best film ever created about Japan

[–] NatSec 15 years ago

"The Stratosphere Girl"

&

even though it was a little T.V. movie-ish...

"The Ramen Girl"

The fact that they both have girl in the title is just a coincidence.

[–] PeterMarkoff 15 years ago

Babel ?

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[–] agent2009 15 years ago

Try Big Man Japan.

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I'm rich and divorced

[–] noda1 14 years ago

'Tokyo Sonata'
'Kamikaze Girls'

[–] alexbettyx 14 years ago

I completely disagree. I just watched this movie, and I was struck by a weird nostalgia. I lived in Japan for two years, and this movie did more for reminding me what it was like to actually live there than most. Most of the movies we get to see highlight what's so "Japanese" about Japan in a very romanticized way. It's not all karaoke and Harajuku girls and otaku and that ancient aesthetic. I found that out after being there for awhile. That stuff is there, of course, but it's almost hidden by the daily surroundings like the predominantly ugly pre-fab buildings with tiny, crappy apartments, being an outsider (foreigner or not) in a country that prides itself on homogeneity, more fast food franchises than the US (tho some of it much better), and some seriously passive-aggressive behavior (notice how no one tried to stop Merde on the streets?). I didn't mean this to turn into a rant, but Japan has been so romanticized in movies that you don't know real Japan when you see it. It is more than it's cliches.