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Tokyo Tribe (2014) (Blu-ray) (Japan Version) Blu-ray Region A

Sono Sion (Director) | Kubozuka Yosuke (Actor) | Sometani Shota (Actor) | Suzuki Ryohei (Actor)
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Visionary filmmaker Sono Sion (Love Exposure, Why Don't You Play in Hell) creates Japan's first rap musical with Tokyo Tribe! Based on Inoue Santa's Tokyo Tribe2 manga series, Tokyo Tribe is set in a futuristic Tokyo in which its 23 districts have become 23 rival gang factions. In his first movie starring role, rapper Young Dais stars as Kai, the leader of the peace-loving Musashino Saru. When Bukuro Wu–Ronz's ambitious leader Meera (Suzuki Ryohei, The Forbidden Superhero) murders Musashino's Tera (Sato Ryota) to lure the Saru into a war, Tokyo factions like the Shinjuku Hands and the Shibuya Sarus are dragged into an all-out battle against Meera and the all-powerful Buppa Family. Featuring music by hip-hop collective BCDMG, Tokyo Tribe is an ambitious, wild gangster epic that's also one of the most entertaining films in the career of the bad boy of Japanese cinema.
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Product Title: Tokyo Tribe (2014) (Blu-ray) (Japan Version) 東京暴族 (2014) (Blu-ray) (日本版) 东京暴族 (2014) (Blu-ray) (日本版) TOKYO TRIBE 【Blu-ray Disc】 Tokyo Tribe (2014) (Blu-ray) (Japan Version)
Artist Name(s): Kubozuka Yosuke (Actor) | Sometani Shota (Actor) | Suzuki Ryohei (Actor) | Takeuchi Riki (Actor) | Ichikawa Yui (Actor) | Nakagawa Shoko (Actor) | Sato Ryuta (Actor) | Ishida Takuya (Actor) | Daito Shunsuke (Actor) | YOUNG DAIS (Actor) | Seino Nana (Actor) | BCDMG (Actor) 窪塚洋介 (Actor) | 染谷將太 (Actor) | 鈴木亮平 (Actor) | 竹內力 (Actor) | 市川由衣 (Actor) | 中川翔子 (Actor) | 佐藤隆太 (Actor) | 石田卓也 (Actor) | 大東俊介 (Actor) | YOUNG DAIS (Actor) | 清野菜名 (Actor) | BCDMG (Actor) 洼冢洋介 (Actor) | 染谷将太 (Actor) | 铃木亮平 (Actor) | 竹内力 (Actor) | 市川由衣 (Actor) | 中川翔子 (Actor) | 佐藤隆太 (Actor) | 石田卓也 (Actor) | 大东俊介 (Actor) | YOUNG DAIS (Actor) | 清野菜名 (Actor) | BCDMG (Actor) 窪塚洋介 (Actor) | 染谷将太 (Actor) | 鈴木亮平 (Actor) | 竹内力 (Actor) | 市川由衣 (Actor) | 中川翔子 (Actor) | 佐藤隆太 (Actor) | 石田卓也 (Actor) | 大東駿介 (Actor) | YOUNG DAIS (Actor) | 清野菜名 (Actor) | BCDMG (Actor) | 井上三太 (Actor) Kubozuka Yosuke (Actor) | Sometani Shota (Actor) | 스즈키 료헤이 (Actor) | Takeuchi Riki (Actor) | Ichikawa Yui (Actor) | Shoko Nakagawa (Actor) | Sato Ryuta (Actor) | Ishida Takuya (Actor) | Daito Shunsuke (Actor) | YOUNG DAIS (Actor) | Seino Nana (Actor) | BCDMG (Actor)
Director: Sono Sion 園子溫 园子温 園子温 Sono Sion
Blu-ray Region Code: A - Americas (North, Central and South except French Guiana), Korea, Japan, South East Asia (including Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan) What is it?
Release Date: 2015-01-06
Publisher Product Code: BBXN-1171
Language: Japanese
Place of Origin: Japan
Disc Format(s): Blu-ray
Other Information: Blu-ray Disc
Shipment Unit: 2 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.: 1037317238

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[アーティスト/ キャスト]
鈴木亮平 / YOUNG DAIS / 清野菜名 / 園子温 (監督、脚本) / 井上三太 (原作) / BCDMG (音楽)

本編ディスク+特典ディスク

[特典情報]
初回特典:オリジナル特製描き下ろしアウターケース/映像特典収録/音声特典収録

[テクニカル・インフォメーション]
本編116分+特典112分
製作国 : 日本 (Japan)
公開年 : 2014

[ストーリー]
近未来“トーキョー”には様々なトライブ(族)が存在し縄張りを守っていた。ある事件をきっかけに、その均衡が崩れる。ブクロは、ブッバとその息子ンコイ、そしてブクロWU−RONZのボス・メラが、街を牛耳り勢力を拡大していた。メラは敵対心を向けるムサシノSARUのメンバー・キムに罠を仕掛けた。キムを助けるため、ムサシノSARUリーダー・テラ、ハシーム、そして海は、最危険区であるブクロに乗り込みWU−RONZ率いるメラと対峙する。そこには謎の女・スンミが囚われていた。メラが海を敵視するワケとは?メラが仕掛けた戦争はトーキョー中に派生する。今夜、トーキョー全土を巻き込んだ想像を絶する一大バトルがはじまる!!

[解説]
累計250万部超、伝説的コミック完全実写映画化!/鬼才・園子温監督による、世界初のバトル・ラップ・ミュージカル!/近未来のニッポン、首都トーキョー。/“族”たちの壮絶バトル勃発!/この街を制するのはどいつらだ!?

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Professional Review of "Tokyo Tribe (2014) (Blu-ray) (Japan Version)"

January 12, 2015

This professional review refers to Tokyo Tribe (2014) (DVD) (English Subtitled) (Hong Kong Version)
Cult Japanese director Sion Sono returns to blow minds and speakers alike with Tokyo Tribe, a bold, brash hip hop musical told in his inimitably perverse poetic style. Based on a 1997 manga by Santa Inoue, actually the second in the series, the film sees Sono following last year's Why Don't You Play in Hell? with another wild, violent and colourful mix of genres, forms and cinematic techniques, subverting expectations and continuing to mark himself as one of the country's most distinctive directors.

The film is set in a vaguely futuristic Tokyo years after the Shibuya riots, the city divided up into a series of territories by gangs who keep to their own areas in the name of a fragile truce. An incident involving the peace-loving Musashino Saru and the brutal Wu-Ronz tribes changes everything, giving the evil Buppa (Takashi Miike regular Riki Takeuchi) the chance to try and seize power for himself - Buppa's psychotic Wu-Ronz henchman Mera (Ryohei Suzuki, Gatchaman) is only too happy to oblige, desperate to even the score with former best friend Kai (real life pro rapper Young Dais, aka Daisaku Shimada), and the city is soon torn apart by all-out war. Meanwhile, a mysterious and seemingly innocent young woman called Sunmi (Nana Seino, also in the excellent though sadly not widely seen Ku_on is snatched from the street by the Wu-Ronz and forced into prostitution, while a street kid (Makoto Sakaguchi) tries to free her, the two getting caught up in the struggle between Mera and Kai.

On paper, the idea of a Japanese rap epic might sound suspiciously like a spoof or some kind of cultural pastiche. However, though Tokyo Tribe is fantastically over the top and might well come across as being tongue in cheek, Sion Sono certainly took the film's hip hop elements seriously, engaging the services of the Japanese CDMG (Big Crow Dog Music Group) and with a great deal of work having gone into the dialogue and lyrics (and thankfully into the English subtitles). Along with the usual dash of Beethoven on the soundtrack, while not every line is delivered in verse, the rap comes thick and fast throughout and once the initial fears of gimmickry have passed works very well indeed. Performed by a mix of professionals and a game cast of actors and actresses trying their best to keep up, the standard of delivery unsurprisingly varies, though there's a definite and genuine feel for the musical form here, and an exuberant celebration of it as a storytelling technique, amplifying and exaggerating the more excessive aspects of its associated culture and trappings to glorious effect.

Of course, as a Sion Sono outing the rapping is only part of the film's uniqueness, working in gang battles, martial arts, torture, nudity, rape, Satanism, cannibalism, human furniture and unexplained earthquakes into a mad though oddly coherent and upbeat tale. Quite likely to offend or baffle some viewers, the film has an unhinged tone that veers from comedy and romance to vicious misogyny and machismo-mocking penis gags, equal parts West Side Story and A Clockwork Orange with elements of The Warriors and other gang actioners thrown in for good measure. Some bizarre performances from the flamboyantly costumed cast add to the madness, and special mention has to go to Riki Takeuchi for a scene-devouring turn that at times really defies belief. It's a chaotic, heady brew that bounces along at a hectic pace, Sono's lurid palette of day-glo colours and post-apocalyptic punk set design combining with the constant beats of the loud soundtrack to make for a unique and searing cinema experience - definitely a film to catch on the big screen if possible.

Tokyo Tribe is another hyper-confident piece of film making from Sion Sono, and one which sees him furthering the deranged passion for life, pandemonium and cinema shown in Why Don't You Play in Hell? Embracing the absurd with conviction and artistry, there's a powerful sense of hope and self-belief to the film, and while whatever themes and messages it may or may not possess are up for debate, there's no denying it as an intense and rousing work that's almost participatory in its infectious lunacy.

by James Mudge - EasternKicks.com

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