Konterr Brilliant and touching

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

cwbellor Tokyo Tribe gives you extravagant and ambitious set pieces, a cast of hundreds with almost as many speaking parts and rap ...so ...so much ...rap. And therein lies the most glaring flaw of this film. No, there's nothing wrong with rap. There IS something wrong with a plot taking a backseat so that rap and posturing can be front and center again and again and again. And just when you think you might get some substantial dialogue... more rap. Mind you, the rap is good and there are some worthy artists being showcased here. Cyborg Kaori is one of the amusing highlights - she seems to be playing some kind of court jester for the cannibal gangster - but she is overshadowed. She's drowned out by characters like the blonde Mera, who could be subversive and cool, but end up being monotonous and predictable. I was completely ready to enjoy Tokyo Tribe. On Netflix, it appears to be a fun, action-filled homage to films like The Warriors. But I knew within the first ten minutes that watching this was going to be a test of patience. In a way, it's the perfect Japanese film. It's a sensory overload of colors and images and the wandering camera is reminiscent of a tourist who can't decide what to pay attention to. It reflects little of Japanese reality - gangs are born out of economic hardship and strife. The strife in contemporary Tokyo is existential, not economic. But this film is knowingly fantasy and while it's easy to roll your eyes at middle class kids trying to be thugs, you can't actually accuse the film of being dishonest. For the first half hour, you feel like you're viewing an introductory segment. If you're half an hour into the film and you're still not sure who the protagonist is, you're watching an incredibly flawed movie. An hour into this story, you'll find yourself hungry for something of substance. Instead, you have to endure more stylized over-the-top performances and yet more introductions of new characters. It's a lot of time wasted on creative tangents, when that time could have been dedicated to the central characters. It's not hard to be emotionally invested in characters like Kai. But it takes almost forty minutes for him to be front and center. By that time, half the people watching this would have been completely justified in tuning into something else.

Leofwine_draca TOKYO TRIBE is another quite incredible movie from Japanese cult director Sion Sono, a man whose has overtaken Takashi Miike as that country's supreme director of trashy, anything-goes cinema. I've previously experienced the delights of such films as GUILTY OF ROMANCE and LOVE EXPOSURE among others, but even they didn't prepare me for this high-energy musical that has to be seen to be believed.The story is set in an alternate universe Tokyo, one that is dominated by rival gangs. The tale sees a pair of super-villains teaming up to commit murder, only to find themselves opposed by the rest of the gangs who gather together to combat them. The result is an incredible concoction of martial arts action, sexuality, and generally cool characters doing intensely cool things. I loved every demented minute of it, and that's coming from somebody who doesn't even like rap music. It says something about Sono's efforts that I ended up loving the music here, even if it is just for this movie.

Jack Kin I love how the Japanese are not afraid of the human body and nature and moved forward while back in America retarded corporation bans leggings!!! This is by far the best Japanese movie and possibly the best Sono movie to date. It is up there and it deserves to be. Everything paid off in this film and I don't even like rap. It is emotional. It is explosive. It has heart. It is sexy. This is everything anyone who is young or young at heart has wanted in a futuristic film. By the end you will feel like humanity has progressed and it becomes hard to say goodbye. Don't get me wrong it is dystopian, but has a happy ending. The final scene in this movie was one of the most powerful scenes and that and the beautiful flaunting add up to a masterpiece and the fact that human haters are angered make it perfect

capo-365-829602 Shion Sono can, in the case of Love Exposure, make a 4 hour movie feel like a 2 hour movie and in the case of Tokyo Tribe make a two hour movie feel like a four hour movie. A strange showdown in Tokyo between warring crews is a freaking absurd mix between the Warriors, 1970's yakuza flicks, and an entire history of hip hop videos. The beats are tight, the visuals mind-blowing, the whole thing is like a crazy hallucination that is actually closer to way the real world operates than we admit. The set it is filmed on is obviously fake like the rain that hits it, the acting is absurd, the plot simple, but executed however the hell he wants. What is Shion Sono trying to say??? I think everyone that watches Tokyo Tribe at one point has to ask the question they know they shouldn't. I see, hear, and feel this movie. It does drag at times, since they're defiantly rapping almost every line of dialogue. Something about this film makes it the most progressive, subversive, pure cinema yet to be made on such a large scale. It's inaccessible, but mindless. It's mindful and welcoming. Crazy, insane, but completely lucid the entire time. I think it's genius. I think this guy Shion Sono is a genius. Should I admit that again? Oh I guess I already did on his last film.