Synopsis
In an alternate Japan, territorial street gangs form opposing factions collectively known as the Tokyo Tribes. The simmering tension between them is about to boil over into all-out war.
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Cast
- Ryohei SuzukiMera
- Young DaisKai
- Nana SeinoSunmi
- Ryuta SatoTera
- Shota SometaniMC Show
- DendenHigh Priest
- Yosuke KubozukaNkoi
- Riki TakeuchiBuppa
- Shoko NakagawaKesha
- Shunsuke DaitohIwao
Recommendations
- 75
Slant Magazine
Sion Sono's film imagines gangs not as rebels without a cause, but a lost generation of displaced, poisoned youths. - 75
The A.V. Club
Sion Sono’s hip-hop musical is a chiefly visual pleasure, in part because most of the cast can’t rap worth a damn; its warped frame bounces between shimmering neons and fluorescents, disco-ball samurai suits, living statues, and all kinds of things that have been painted gold for gold’s sake. - 60
Variety
The latest from the culty maker of “Suicide Club,” “Love Exposure” and last year’s TIFF Midnight Madness audience-award winner, “Why Don’t You Play in Hell?,” is so insistently over-the-top from the start that the results are just fairly amusing when they ought to be exhilarating. - 60
Village Voice
Tokyo Tribe is Sono cackling hysterically while smashing a keytar. Sure, there are a few sour notes, but he's made a great blast of noise. - 60
The Guardian
Amusingly tacky and offensive though it is, proceedings grow a bit monotonous, because all the tunes have pretty much the same beat and everything is pitched at the same hysterical, OTT level. - 60
Time Out London
It’s a wild, at times exhilarating watch – but an exhausting one. - 50
Movie Nation
It’s a garish mess, more interesting as a concept and production design exercise than as a movie. But you’ve never seen anything quite like it. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
Tokyo Tribe is a spectacle more in its form than its content.
