Tokyo! / Comme des Cinémas présente ; Kansai Telecasting Corporation, Sponge Ent. Inc., Coin Film ; en coproduction avec Bitters End, ARTE France Cinéma, WDR/Arte ; en association avec Backup Films, Wild Bunch, Champion Top Investment ; Vap, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Wowow, Asahi Broadcasting Corporation, Picnic ; [réalisé par] Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, Bong Joon Ho ; produit par Masa Sawada et Michiko Yoshitake.

Format:

• Video

Contributor:

• Gondry, Michel, screenwriter, film director.
• Carax, Léos, film director.
• Pong, Chun-ho, 1969- film director.
• Sawada, Masamichi, film producer.
• Yoshitake, Michiko, film producer.
• Bell, Gabrielle, screenwriter.
• Fujitani, Ayako, 1979- actor.
• Kase, Ryō, 1974- actor.
• Lavant, Denis, 1961- actor.
• Balmer, Jean-François, actor.
• Kagawa, Teruyuki, 1965- actor.
• Aoi, Yū, 1985- actor.
• Inomoto, Masami, director of photography.
• Champetier, Caroline, director of photography.
• Fukumoto, Jun, director of photography.
• Hosono, Haruomi, 1947- composer.
• Takahashi, Yukihiro, composer.
• Sakamoto, Ryūichi, 1952-2023, composer.
• Bell, Gabrielle.
• Comme des Cinémas (Firm), presenter.
• Kansai Terebi Hōsō, production company.
• Sponge Ent. Inc., production company.
• Bitters End, Inc., production company.
• Coin Film (Firm), production company.
• Backup Films, production company.
• Liberation Entertainment (Firm), film distributor.
• 봉 준호, 1969- film director.
• 澤田正道, film producer.
• 吉武美知子, film producer.
• 藤谷文子, 1979- actor.
• 加瀬亮, actor.
• 香川照之, 1965- actor.
• 蒼井優, 1985- actor.
• 細野晴臣, 1947- composer.
• 高橋幸宏, composer.
• 坂本竜一, 1952- composer.
• 関西テレビ放送, production company.

Language:

• English
• French
• Japanese

Subjects (All):

• Bell, Gabrielle--Film adaptations.
• Tokyo (Japan)--Drama.
• City dwellers--Japan--Tokyo--Drama.
• Young women--Japan--Tokyo--Conduct of life--Drama.
• Monsters--Japan--Tokyo--Drama.
• Arrest (Police methods)--Drama.
• Recluses--Japan--Drama.
• Social phobia--Japan--Tokyo--Drama.
• Bell, Gabrielle.
• Arrest (Police methods).
• City dwellers.
• Monsters.
• Motion pictures.
• Recluses.
• Social phobia.
• Young women--Conduct of life.
• Japan.
• Japan--Tokyo.

Genre:

• Motion pictures, Japanese.
• Foreign language films -- Japanese.
• Anthology films
• Drama
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Film adaptations
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
• Feature films.
• Anthology films.
• Fiction films.
• Film adaptations.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Distribution:

Los Angeles, CA : Liberation Entertainment, [2009]

Language Note:

Japanese and French dialogue with optional subtitles in English or French.

System Details:

• DVD, NTSC, all regions; widescreen (16:9) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo.
• Dolby digital 2.0 D2 rda
• digital
• optical
• surround
• stereo
• Dolby digital 5.1
• NTSC
• all regions
• video file
• DVD video

Summary:

Three Tokyo-set stories: A young woman finds her life useless and goes on to experience a metamorphosis. A disheveled Caucasian who calls himself "Merde" emerges from a manhole to face arrest, trial, and execution; he speaks a language only his look-alike attorney understands. A recluse experiences human contact when a pizza-delivery girl faints at his door during an earthquake

Contents:

• Interior design / screenplay by Michel Gondry and Gabrielle Bell ; directed by Michel Gondry
• Merde / screenplay by Leos Carax ; directed by Leos Carax ;
• Shaking Tokyo / screenplay by Bong Joon-ho ; directed by Bong Joon-ho.

Participant:

• (Interior design): Ayako Fujitani, Ryo Kase.
• (Merde): Denis Lavant, Jean-François Balmer.
• (Shaking Tokyo): Teruyuki Kagawa, Yu Aoi.

Credits:

• Music, Haruomi Hosono, Yukihiro Takahashi, Sakamoto Ryūichi.
• Interior design: director, Isamu Suzuki; director of photography, Masami Inomoto; art director, Yuji Hayashida.
• Merde: director, Tamotsu Kanamori; director of photography, Caroline Champetier; art director, Fuminori Kimura.
• Shaking Tokyo: director, Toshihiro Osato; director of photography, Jun Fukumoto; art director, Mitsuo Harada.

Notes:

• Interior design adapted from Gabrielle Bell's comic book 'Cecil and Jordan in New York.'
• DVD release of the 2008 motion picture.
• Special features: "Making of Interior design" featurette; "Making of Merde" featurette; "Making of Shaking Tokyo" featurette; director interviews; photo gallery; trailer.

Related Work:

Bell, Gabrielle. Cecil & Jordan in New York.

OCLC:

422723073

Publisher Number:

• 858423001667
• LIB00166 Liberation Entertainment

Online:

http://www.mrqe.com/movies/m100033487