Recensioni di Metacritic

The entries aren't equally strong, of course, but each comes from a sharp outsider's perspective, approaching Tokyo as a strange, mysterious organism that infects the populace.

Carax, who hadn't made a movie since "Pola X" in 1999 comes off best.

Though these vignettes appear frivolous and inconsequential when set beside the directors' features, they will tickle the funny bones of a general audience. A safe choice for fantastic fests, worldwide cinemas will open to the kind of audiences who bought tickets to see "Paris J'taime" or "To Each His Own Cinema."

Mutants abound as each episode trips the light fantastic.

Both in its parts and in the sum of them Tokyo! is playfully and sometimes disorientingly apocalyptic.

Do these films reflect actual aspects of modern Tokyo? The hikikomori epidemic is apparently real enough, but the other two segments seem more deliberately fantastical. The entertainment value? Medium to high: "Merde." Tokyo? Still standing.

An uneven but enjoyable trio of films that take affectionate (and sometimes literal) aim at the Japanese capital.

This isn't an art house crowd pleaser along the lines of the 2006 "Paris, je t'aime," a freewheeling mixed bag of shorts made by the likes of Olivier Assayas, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuarón. Tokyo! demands more patience, patience that it sometimes doesn't deserve.

Anyone looking for something original or unexpected should check out the trio of short films that comprise this entertaining ode to the titular city.

The best, Shaking Tokyo, stars the versatile Teruyuki Kagawa.