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?
Cast: Yû Aoi, YosiYosi Arakawa, Jean-François Balmer, Julie Dreyfus, Ayako Fujitani, Ayumi Ito, Teruyuki Kagawa, Denis Lavant, Yutaka Matsushige, Nao Omori, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Hiroshi Yamamoto
Directed by Michel Gondry ("Interior Design"), Joon-ho Bong ("Shaking Tokyo"), Leos Carax ("Merde")
Script by Michel Gondry ("Interior Design"), Joon-ho Bong ("Shaking Tokyo"), Leos Carax ("Merde")
Producer: Anne Pernod-Sawada, Masa Sawada, Michiko Yoshitake
Charlotte is a tender human being, having found her life’s fulfillment in a way that is strange enough to be hidden. She is married, has a son, and works in a hospital. When Charlotte’s husband Max finds out his wife’s secret passion, their marriage is put to a test, and she is sacked from the work at the hospital. Wishing to save their relationship and to flee from the ghosts of the past, Charlotte and Max embark on a exotically saturated voyage to India.
Cast: Sandra Hüller, Dragan Bakema, Sabine Timoteo, Rvan Brodie
Directed by: Nanouk Leopold