{"id":13174,"date":"2019-11-11T21:29:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T02:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13174"},"modified":"2019-11-11T21:29:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T02:29:36","slug":"tokyo-tribe-2014-sion-sono","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13174","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Tribe (2014, Sion Sono)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese gang-war rap musical, opens with an epic long take, then blonde gang boss Mera (Ry\u00f4hei Suzuki of Kurosawa&#8217;s <em>Seventh Code<\/em>) explains the local gangs and neighborhoods to a noob cop he has stripped and threatened with a knife, and we already know what the movie is like: it&#8217;s gross and loud and sexist, and kinda fun as hell.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image19\/tokyotribe1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Mera ambushes his hated rivals, the peaceful gang Musashino led by Kai, and kills a guy, and his body is wheeled back home with a new girl in tow (Nana Seino).  Meanwhile, Mera ally Lord Buppa (played by a pop-eyed Riki Takeuchi, a classic Miike star I haven&#8217;t seen since <em>Battle Royale 2<\/em>) is sent two elite fighters by the High Priest to recover HP&#8217;s missing daughter Erika (the new girl, obvs), and previously unknown gang the Waru is activated.<\/p>\n<p><em>A holographic message from the wise High Priest:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image19\/tokyotribe2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Kai bands together all the Tokyo tribes, including the Gira Gira Girls and Neri Muthafuckaz and probably a couple more, to fight this new threat.  It all looks impressively choreographed and real, neon lights and stunt fights, then a super-fake CG tank comes along and blows it.  Still, for a full two hours of rap mayhem, this doesn&#8217;t lose steam.  I&#8217;d been avoiding Sion Sono since <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/1008\">Noriko&#8217;s Dinner Table<\/a><\/em>, but this and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11595\">Why Don&#8217;t You Play In Hell<\/a><\/em> were fun, so maybe I should watch his four-hour masterpiece <em>Love Exposure<\/em> sometime.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image19\/tokyotribe4.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese gang-war rap musical, opens with an epic long take, then blonde gang boss Mera (Ry\u00f4hei Suzuki of Kurosawa&#8217;s Seventh Code) explains the local gangs and neighborhoods to a noob cop he has stripped and threatened with a knife, and we already know what the movie is like: it&#8217;s gross and loud and sexist, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,1243,2396,36,80,606],"class_list":["post-13174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-gangsters","tag-hologram","tag-japan","tag-musical","tag-sion-sono"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13267,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13174\/revisions\/13267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}