Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians. After his arrest, he stands trial and lashes out at a hostile courtroom. A man who has resigned himself to a life of solitude reconsiders after meeting a charming pizza delivery woman. And finally, a happy young couple find themselves undergoing a series of frightening metamorphoses.
Direction
Three auteurs, three wildly different energies, zero compromise
Practical Effects
Gondry's body horror transformation without a single CGI shot
Director
Leos Carax
Ayako Fujitani
Hiroko (segment "Interior Design")
Ryo Kase
Akira (segment "Interior Design")
Ayumi Ito
Akemi (segment "Interior Design")
Nao Omori
Hiroshi (segment "Interior Design")
Satoshi Tsumabuki
Takeshi (segment "Interior Design")
Denden
Car Pound Attendant (segment "Interior Design")
Denis Lavant
Merde' (segment "Merde")
Jean-François Balmer
Maître Voland (segment "Merde")
Renji Ishibashi
Advocate General (segment "Merde")
Toshiyuki Kitami
Prosecutor (segment "Merde")
Kyūsaku Shimada
Prison Director (segment "Merde")
Teruyuki Kagawa
Man (segment "Shaking Tokyo")
Yu Aoi
Pizza-Delivery Girl (segment "Shaking Tokyo")
Naoto Takenaka
Pizza-Delivery Girl's Boss (segment "Shaking Tokyo")
Yoshiyoshi Arakawa
Pizza Delivery Girl's Neighbor (segment "Shaking Tokyo")
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Denis Lavant's 'Merde' character originated in a 1998 Carax short and was so beloved by the director he built an entire segment around him a decade later.
Gondry's 'Interior Design' was adapted from a comic he co-wrote; the flat transformation was his literal visualization of feeling invisible in a new city.
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