Tokyo!

A triptych examines the nature of one unforgettable city as it's shaped by the disparate people who live, work (and even run amok) inside one enormous, constantly evolving, densely populated megalopolis, the ravishing and inimitable Tokyo. 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? —<jhailey@hotmail.com> In TOKYO!, three of the world's greatest filmmakers come together for an omnibus triptych examining the nature of one unforgettable city as it's shaped by the disparate people who live, work (and even run amok!) inside one enormous, constantly evolving,densely populated Japanese megalopolis - the ravishing and inimitable Tokyo. Triptych, rhapsody, psychogeography, omnibus, urban valentine, freak show, mindwalk and many other things, TOKYO. is a fantasy in three movements that will make you see one of the world's greatest cities - if not any city - in unpredictable new ways. In the tradition of such films as NEW YORK STORIES,NIGHT ON EARTH, PARIS JE T'AIME and NEW YORK JE T'AIME, TOKYO. addresses the timeless question of whether we shape cities, or if cities shape us -in the process revealing the rich humanity at the heart of modern urban life. —Anonymous