Posted by kevin at 11:25pm on Wednesday, May 7, 2008 CDT
Filed under: Drama, Future releases, Official website surveillance, New trailers
The official website for Tokyo! was updated yesterday with a few new sections and a short production footage teaser trailer. The film features 3 short films taking place in Tokyo but directed by non-natives. Joon-ho Bong's film, "Shaking Tokyo" is about a 10-year recluse (Teruyuki Kagawa) who works up the courage to go out and find the pizza delivery girl he's fallen in love with (Yu Aoi) only to be caught in an earthquake. Michel Gondry directs the highly metaphorical "Interior Design" in which Ayako Fujitani plays a girl who moves to Tokyo to live with her boyfriend (Ryo Kase), but when she feels useless she begins to slowly transform into a wooden chair - a condition that oddly causes her great relief from her recent frustration. Finally Leos Carax directs "Merde", a story about a strange man (Denis Lavant) who appears from the sewers, horrifying nearby citizens like a phantom. However, when an incident occurs and he gets arrested, his trial sparks mixed feelings about what should happen to him.
Still no solid release date but it should be sometime in 2008.
Links:
Official Website
Eigapedia
Tags: ayako fujitani, ayumi ito, nao omori, naoto takenaka, ryo kase, satoshi tsumabuki, teruyuki kagawa, tokyo, yu aoi