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Tokyo! /

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 w...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Liberation Entertainment (Firm), Comme des Cinémas (Firm), Bitters End, Inc, Kansai Telecasting Corporation (Firm), Sponge Entertainment (Firm), Arte France cinéma (Firm), Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Coin Film (Firm), Backup Films
Other Authors: Sawada, Masa, Yoshitake, Michiko, Fujitani, Ayako, Kase, Ryō, 1974-, Lavant, Denis, 1961-, Balmer, Jean-François, Kagawa, Teruyuki, 1965-, Aoi, Yu, Gondry, Michel, Bell, Gabrielle, Carax, Léos, Pong, Chun-ho, 1969-
Format: Video Blu-ray Disc
Language:Japanese
French
Language Notes:Japanese and French dialogue with optional subtitles in English or French; closed-captioned.
Published: Los Angeles, CA : Liberation Entertainment, [2009]
Subjects:
Tokyo (Japan) > Drama.
City dwellers > Japan > Drama.
Young women > Conduct of life > Drama.
Arrest (Police methods) > Drama.
Recluses > Japan > Drama.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Feature films.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures, Japanese.
Fiction films.
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Summary: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. He conquers fear to seek her out. Three Tokyo-set stories.
Item Description:Title and credits from container.
Interior design adapted from Gabrielle Bell's comic book 'Cecil and Jordan in New York.'
Blu-ray 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.
Videorecording.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:Blu-ray disc, all regions, widescreen (16:9) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo., NTSC.
This Blu-ray disc will not play in standard DVD players.
Audience:Not rated.