Title: Tokyo Tribe XLrator Media Director: Sion Sono Writer: Sion Sono, Santa Inoue (based on Manga) Cast: Ryohei Suzuki, Young Daisz, Akihiro Kitamura, Riki Takeuchi, Ryûta Satô, Tomoko Karina, Akihiro Kitamura, Hitomi Katayama, Nana Seino, Yôsuke Kubozuka Running time: 116min Rated: Unrated (violence, blood, bare breasts, implied rape) Theatrical, VOD And iTUNES Release Date: October 23, 2015 Based on the Manga by Santa Inoue, Tokyo Tribe takes place in an alternate/futuristic town in Japan, street gangs have a peace treaty that becomes disrupted when Merra, leader of the Wu-Ronz tribe of Bukuro attempts to kill Kai, member of the Musahino Saru; he kills Kai’s friend Tera by mistake. Tera is a beloved go-between of all the tribes, to which his [ Read More ]
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- 10/26/2015
- by juliana
- ShockYa
Words can never do justice to the awe-inspiring, brain-eating weirdness of Sion Sono’s Japanese dystopian hip-hop kung-fu musical Tokyo Tribe. Based on a popular manga series by comic artist and urban-fashion impresario Santa Inoue, the film presents us with a kaleidoscopic wasteland of post-apocalyptic kitsch, dated street fashions, rap posturing, body horror, hilariously over-the-top violence, and a mash-up of martial arts and dance. But even that litany of influences and styles can’t quite express how insane this film is. In the film’s opening setpiece, a crane shot follows a young Mc named Show (Shota Sometani) as he walks through a packed, graffiti-covered street that looks like an alarmist vision out of a ’90s music video. The imagery here is both tongue-in-cheek and epic, but the delivery of Show, our Virgil-like guide to this hellscape, has a brooding poetry. “An earthquake could break at any time,” he raps,...
- 10/24/2015
- by Bilge Ebiri
- Vulture
If only director Sion Sono can keep up the current pace he’s working at, this universe may very well still be worth saving.
After a handful of gorgeous and criticially beloved features like Love Exposure, Sono blew the doors off of 2014’s year of cinema with his brilliant and in many ways definitive Why Don’t You Play In Hell?. Well, he’s back once again with what may very well be his most anarchic and revelatory achievement to date.
Entitled Tokyo Tribe, Sono takes to the world of gangsters in what is ostensibly a Tokyo sometime in the near-ish future. For all intents and purposes an action film in the body of a musical, Sono’s latest is based on the manga series Tokyo Tribe 2 from Santa Inoue, and melds Shaw Brothers-esque clan battles with a futuristic setting and rap music. Think The Kid With The Golden Arm...
After a handful of gorgeous and criticially beloved features like Love Exposure, Sono blew the doors off of 2014’s year of cinema with his brilliant and in many ways definitive Why Don’t You Play In Hell?. Well, he’s back once again with what may very well be his most anarchic and revelatory achievement to date.
Entitled Tokyo Tribe, Sono takes to the world of gangsters in what is ostensibly a Tokyo sometime in the near-ish future. For all intents and purposes an action film in the body of a musical, Sono’s latest is based on the manga series Tokyo Tribe 2 from Santa Inoue, and melds Shaw Brothers-esque clan battles with a futuristic setting and rap music. Think The Kid With The Golden Arm...
- 7/5/2015
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
THR is reporting that producer Patrick S. Cunningham (Martha Marcy May Marlene) and director Darryl Wharton-Rigby will shoot a pilot for a potential television adaptation of Santa Inoue's manga Tokyo Tribe. Both are based in Japan."Everyone loves this manga and we just formally acquired the rights before the Cannes film festival. We are developing a pilot which we will shoot over the summer and we are looking at a cast of Japanese, U.S., Chinese and possibly Korean actors. The movie will initially be shot in Tokyo but there will also be some international locations," Cunningham told THR. "Inoue is involved in the development one-hundred percent".The manga, an ultra-violent story of 23 street gangs in dystopic Tokyo, was recently adapted to film as an ultra-violent hip...
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- 5/29/2015
- Screen Anarchy
Producer, Patrick S. Cunningham, and filmmaker, Darryl Wharton-Rigby, have acquired rights to the seminal manga series "Tokyo Tribe," which was created by Santa Inoue. Said to be a sensation in Japan when it was originally published in the late 1990s, the manga about hip-hop–influenced Japanese gangbangers, provides audiences with a look at the impact of African American culture on Japanese youth. Here's how Amazon describes it: "Ornate with hip-hop trappings and packed with gangland grit, 'Tokyo Tribes' paints a vivid, somewhat surreal vision of urban youth. Rival gangs from various Tokyo barrios press each other for turf, leaving many a foot soldier...
- 5/26/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
XLrator Media has kicked up North American rights to Tokyo Tribe, an actioner from writer-director Sion Sono (Why Don't You Play In Hell). Described as a "street-gang/martial arts action/hip-hop musical epic," it stars Ryohei Suzuki and Young Dais and is based on the manga by Santa Inoue. In a futuristic, alternate Tokyo made up of ghetto slums and nightclub playgrounds, territorial street gangs rule the city. When a megalomaniacal gang leader tries to invade the other…...
- 3/12/2015
- Deadline
Tokyo Tribe
Written and directed by Sion Sono
Based on a manga by Santa Inoue
2014, Japan
The Festival du Nouveau Cinema excels at showcasing audacious cinema. A perfect example is Sion Sono’s extravagant Hip-hop futuristic gangster musical, Tokyo Tribe, presented at the opening night of the Fnc’s 10 years old program “Temps O” , an adaptation of Santa Inoue’s 1993 manga “Tokyo Tribe 2”. In a futuristic Tokyo, six tribes divide the city stylistically and ideologically. They’re linked musically, in this continuous rap that goes on throughout the movie: it is a hip-hop battle that, just like a Greek Tragedy, takes place in a single place, in a single night with the same characters. It all leads up to the final confrontation which showcases a deeper ideological divide between Mera’s lustful ambition and Kai’s – his sworn enemy – values of unity and community. From the start, the film surprises.
Written and directed by Sion Sono
Based on a manga by Santa Inoue
2014, Japan
The Festival du Nouveau Cinema excels at showcasing audacious cinema. A perfect example is Sion Sono’s extravagant Hip-hop futuristic gangster musical, Tokyo Tribe, presented at the opening night of the Fnc’s 10 years old program “Temps O” , an adaptation of Santa Inoue’s 1993 manga “Tokyo Tribe 2”. In a futuristic Tokyo, six tribes divide the city stylistically and ideologically. They’re linked musically, in this continuous rap that goes on throughout the movie: it is a hip-hop battle that, just like a Greek Tragedy, takes place in a single place, in a single night with the same characters. It all leads up to the final confrontation which showcases a deeper ideological divide between Mera’s lustful ambition and Kai’s – his sworn enemy – values of unity and community. From the start, the film surprises.
- 10/26/2014
- by Anne-Myriam Abdelhak
- SoundOnSight
The second annual Beyond Fest is coming back to Los Angeles' Egyptian Theatre (6712 Hollywood Boulevard) and will be running from September 25 through October 4, 2014. Tickets are available through Fandango Now.
From the Press Release
Dedicated to delivering the elite in horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and badass cinema, this year’s Beyond Fest programming reflects a globally diverse and eclectic mix of premieres, rare repertory screenings, and special events, all of which are anchored in bringing firsts to the community of genre fans in Los Angeles.
Beyond Fest has also partnered with Robert Rodriguez’s El Rey Network as its presenting sponsor, a partnership that will make much of the festival’s programming free to creative makers and film fans alike.
“The response was so great last year that we knew we had to bring Beyond Fest back, so much so that we immediately started planning this installment,” said Christian Parkes, co-founder of Beyond Fest.
From the Press Release
Dedicated to delivering the elite in horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and badass cinema, this year’s Beyond Fest programming reflects a globally diverse and eclectic mix of premieres, rare repertory screenings, and special events, all of which are anchored in bringing firsts to the community of genre fans in Los Angeles.
Beyond Fest has also partnered with Robert Rodriguez’s El Rey Network as its presenting sponsor, a partnership that will make much of the festival’s programming free to creative makers and film fans alike.
“The response was so great last year that we knew we had to bring Beyond Fest back, so much so that we immediately started planning this installment,” said Christian Parkes, co-founder of Beyond Fest.
- 9/5/2014
- by Steve Barton
- DreadCentral.com
Beyond Fest returns with a vengeance in Los Angeles later this month, giving genre fans a lineup to look forward to. An eclectic mix of films both old and new are on the menu, with a screening of the Halloween 4k re-master highlighting the events. Halloween fans will also be treated to the first-ever combined appearance by John Carpenter and Jamie Lee Curtis to discuss their horror classic.
Los Angeles – September 4, 2014 - “Beyond Fest and the American Cinematheque announced today that they are partnering for the return of the sophomore festival, Beyond Fest, featuring the best in world genre programming, September 25th – October 4th, 2014 at the Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Boulevard. Tickets will be available through Fandango today.
Dedicated to delivering the elite in horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and badass cinema, this year’s Beyond Fest programming reflects a globally diverse and eclectic mix of premieres, rare repertory screenings, and special events,...
Los Angeles – September 4, 2014 - “Beyond Fest and the American Cinematheque announced today that they are partnering for the return of the sophomore festival, Beyond Fest, featuring the best in world genre programming, September 25th – October 4th, 2014 at the Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Boulevard. Tickets will be available through Fandango today.
Dedicated to delivering the elite in horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and badass cinema, this year’s Beyond Fest programming reflects a globally diverse and eclectic mix of premieres, rare repertory screenings, and special events,...
- 9/5/2014
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Exclusive: Ahead of next month’s Toronto International Film Festival, La-based Xyz Films has pacted with Nikkatsu to handle North America sales on two of the Japanese distributor’s anticipated genre titles. Tokyo Tribe, the latest from helmer Sion Sono (Love Exposure, Cold Fish, Why Don’t You Play In Hell?), is adapted from Santa Inoue’s manga about futuristic gang wars waged between thugs who battle through violence and rap. The film is written and directed by Sono and is set to open Tiff’s Midnight Madness program next month. Producers are Yoshinori Chiba, Kinya Oguchi and Nobuhiro Iizuka.
Xyz’s also repping North America on action-thriller Yakuza Apocalypse from Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi The Killer, 13 Assassins). The gangster pic/horror mash-up stars Yayan Ruhian of Xyz-produced The Raid and The Raid 2 alongside Hayato Ichihara in the story of a young yakuza who discovers his seemingly invincible boss is a vampire.
Xyz’s also repping North America on action-thriller Yakuza Apocalypse from Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi The Killer, 13 Assassins). The gangster pic/horror mash-up stars Yayan Ruhian of Xyz-produced The Raid and The Raid 2 alongside Hayato Ichihara in the story of a young yakuza who discovers his seemingly invincible boss is a vampire.
- 8/11/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
Exclusive: Ahead of next month’s Toronto International Film Festival, La-based Xyz Films has pacted with Nikkatsu to handle North America sales on two of the Japanese distributor’s anticipated genre titles. Tokyo Tribe, the latest from helmer Sion Sono (Love Exposure, Cold Fish, Why Don’t You Play In Hell?), is adapted from Santa Inoue’s manga about futuristic gang wars waged between thugs who battle through violence and rap. The film is written and directed by Sono and is set to open Tiff’s Midnight Madness program next month. Producers are Yoshinori Chiba, Kinya Oguchi and Nobuhiro Iizuka. Xyz’s also repping North America […]...
- 8/11/2014
- Deadline
After delivering gonzo efforts like "Why Don't You Play In Hell?," "Love Exposure" and "Cold Fish," Sion Sono is coming to the Toronto International Film Festival Midnight Madness lineup with his latest "Tokyo Tribe." And the filmmaker is once again ready to drop a whole lotta crazy. Blending hip hop, the yakuza and the director's trademark visuals, we'll leave it to the synopsis to try and explain what the heck is going on in the trailer for this musical thing: Set in an alternate Tokyo of the near future, director Sion Sono continues his run of sensational films with the explosive street gang tale Tokyo Tribe. Tokyo Tribe is the first live-action adaptation of the best-selling manga series Tokyo Tribe 2, by Santa Inoue, which has sold two million copies and has been published in Asia and the west to great popularity. Okay, that didn't help much, but this is one you gotta see to believe.
- 7/31/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
The 39th Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) runs September 4-14, 2014, and its Midnight Madness programme brings thrills, chills, and all sorts of kills to Festival audiences once again including Tusk, [Rec] 4: Apocalypse, The Guest, It Follows, and lots more!
From the Press Release:
Get your passports stamped and experience an international cinematic rollercoaster which includes: a Yakuza street gang hip-hop musical epic; spine-chilling Spanish zombies with insatiable appetites; a Finnish boy hunter rescuing the President of the United States from terrorists; and Flemish cub scouts trapped in the woods with sinister companions.
“Midnight Madness has been entertaining connoisseurs of the exquisitely explicit for over 25 years and is now an essential destination for cinematic masters of outrageous expression,” says Colin Geddes, International Programmer for the Festival. “After the sun sets on the Festival days, fearless audiences will converge at the Ryerson Theatre to be served a visual feast of the bizarre,...
From the Press Release:
Get your passports stamped and experience an international cinematic rollercoaster which includes: a Yakuza street gang hip-hop musical epic; spine-chilling Spanish zombies with insatiable appetites; a Finnish boy hunter rescuing the President of the United States from terrorists; and Flemish cub scouts trapped in the woods with sinister companions.
“Midnight Madness has been entertaining connoisseurs of the exquisitely explicit for over 25 years and is now an essential destination for cinematic masters of outrageous expression,” says Colin Geddes, International Programmer for the Festival. “After the sun sets on the Festival days, fearless audiences will converge at the Ryerson Theatre to be served a visual feast of the bizarre,...
- 7/29/2014
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
It looks like Midnight Madness programmer Colin Geddes might have been more inspired by what he might have seen elsewhere, than what was currently available for a potential fall fest break-out. A section commonly known for almost wall to wall world preems in the mix-up of genres and languages, is giving some inventory space to Sundance preemed Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement’s What We Do in the Shadows and Adam Wingard’s The Guest (Nicholas called it, “sleek, fun entertainment, a reminder of a bygone era when an influx of entertaining genre films existed in greater quantity“) which joins the Cannes Critics’ Week entry David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows. Sion Sono will open the section with Tokyo Tribe, but acquisition interest will go towards world preem titles of Jaume Balagueró’s [Rec] 4: Apocalypse, Jalmari Heleander’s Big Game and Jonas Govaerts’ Cub, while the A24 folks get to...
- 7/29/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Everyone’s favourite Toronto International Film Festival programme, Midnight Madness, released their lineup of horrors, thrillers, and generally terrifying cinema for 2014 today.
This year promises a more international selection of scares, boasting films from Spain, Finland, Germany, Belgium, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. Speaking of Japan, Midnight Madness will open with Sion Sono’s Tokyo Tribe, a live-action adaptation of the best-selling manga series by Santa Inoue. Sono won the People’s Choice Award-winner last year with Why Don’t You Play in Hell?.
Joining Sono in the lineup for 2014’s Midnight Madness are Kevin Smith (Clerks) with Tusk, starring Justin Longand Haley Joel Osment; and Adam Winguard (You’re Next) with The Guest, starring Dan Stevens of Downton Abbey.
Tiff also announced their Vanguard, Masters, and documentary programmes today, which showcases films byEthan Hawke (Boyhood), Michael Winterbottom (The Trip), Peter Stickland (Berberian Sound Studio), Takashi Miike (13 Assassins), and Jean-Luc Godard...
This year promises a more international selection of scares, boasting films from Spain, Finland, Germany, Belgium, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. Speaking of Japan, Midnight Madness will open with Sion Sono’s Tokyo Tribe, a live-action adaptation of the best-selling manga series by Santa Inoue. Sono won the People’s Choice Award-winner last year with Why Don’t You Play in Hell?.
Joining Sono in the lineup for 2014’s Midnight Madness are Kevin Smith (Clerks) with Tusk, starring Justin Longand Haley Joel Osment; and Adam Winguard (You’re Next) with The Guest, starring Dan Stevens of Downton Abbey.
Tiff also announced their Vanguard, Masters, and documentary programmes today, which showcases films byEthan Hawke (Boyhood), Michael Winterbottom (The Trip), Peter Stickland (Berberian Sound Studio), Takashi Miike (13 Assassins), and Jean-Luc Godard...
- 7/29/2014
- by Sasha James
- Cineplex
Every year, we look forward to the Midnight Madness selection of the Toronto International Film Festival, which includes a great mix of upcoming horror films around the world. Once again, many of the titles are making their world premiere at Tiff, and we have the full list, which includes Kevin Smith’s Tusk and [Rec] 4:
“Toronto — The Toronto International Film Festival®’s Midnight Madness programme brings thrills, chills and all sorts of kills to Festival audiences once again. Get your passports stamped and experience an international cinematic rollercoaster which includes: a Yakuza street gang hip-hop musical epic; spine-chilling Spanish zombies with insatiable appetites; a Finnish boy hunter rescuing the President of the United States from terrorists; and Flemish cub scouts trapped in the woods with sinister companions.
“Midnight Madness has been entertaining connoisseurs of the exquisitely explicit for over 25 years, and is now an essential destination for cinematic masters of outrageous expression,...
“Toronto — The Toronto International Film Festival®’s Midnight Madness programme brings thrills, chills and all sorts of kills to Festival audiences once again. Get your passports stamped and experience an international cinematic rollercoaster which includes: a Yakuza street gang hip-hop musical epic; spine-chilling Spanish zombies with insatiable appetites; a Finnish boy hunter rescuing the President of the United States from terrorists; and Flemish cub scouts trapped in the woods with sinister companions.
“Midnight Madness has been entertaining connoisseurs of the exquisitely explicit for over 25 years, and is now an essential destination for cinematic masters of outrageous expression,...
- 7/29/2014
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Tokyo Tribes
Director: Sion Sono
Writer: Santa Inoue
Producer: Yoshinori Chiba
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Ryohei Suzuki
While the steadily working Sion Sono’s work ethic may be starting to resemble that of Takashi Miike, as in quantity does not always promise quality, he has more hits than misses (though it picked up the Midnight Madness prize at Tiff last September, his last film, Why Don’t You Play in Hell? is an example of his sometimes gonzo excessiveness). His latest reteams him with genre producer Yoshinori Chiba, having worked together on both Cold Fish and Guilty of Romance. It’s the biggest budget project to date for either of them, and when considering its source material (Santa Inoue’s manga), whatever the end product, it will be something to see considering Sono is casting mostly unknowns, comprised of real rappers, tattoo artists, etc and cites that the...
Director: Sion Sono
Writer: Santa Inoue
Producer: Yoshinori Chiba
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Ryohei Suzuki
While the steadily working Sion Sono’s work ethic may be starting to resemble that of Takashi Miike, as in quantity does not always promise quality, he has more hits than misses (though it picked up the Midnight Madness prize at Tiff last September, his last film, Why Don’t You Play in Hell? is an example of his sometimes gonzo excessiveness). His latest reteams him with genre producer Yoshinori Chiba, having worked together on both Cold Fish and Guilty of Romance. It’s the biggest budget project to date for either of them, and when considering its source material (Santa Inoue’s manga), whatever the end product, it will be something to see considering Sono is casting mostly unknowns, comprised of real rappers, tattoo artists, etc and cites that the...
- 3/3/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
I'm going to have to lean on all you manga experts out there, because it's just not a universe that I'm familiar with, and there aren't any manga pros on the S&A staff. So here's the deal... according to the Anime News Network, acclaimed controversial Japanese director Shion Sono has begun pre-production on a live-action feature adaptation of Santa Inoue’s gang violence manga serial Tokyo Tribe 2, a sequel to his 1993 manga Tokyo Tribe, which was published from 1997 to 2005. Tokyo Tribe 2 was later adapted as a 13-episode animated TV series by in 2006, and now Sono wants to make a live-action film based on the serial. The image at the top of this post...
- 3/30/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
If there's one person on the planet who knows how to deal with people in really creative and violent ways, it's James Wong, who directed Final Destination and Final Destination 3 and has just been tapped to direct a remake of Yasuo Inoue’s Rinjin 13-go titled The Neighbor Number 13 for us Westerners under the Distant Horizon banner.
The news comes today courtesy of our friends over at IndieWire.
The Neighbor Number 13 centers around a young man who, after being traumatized as a boy due to the constant harassment of other children, seeks vengeance against his tormentors.
According to Wong, "I think we have found a very unique way to frame the story and bring a heroic twist to it that is fresh and surprising and will take audiences on a very thrilling journey."
The film, which is based on a manga series by Santa Inoue, is scheduled...
The news comes today courtesy of our friends over at IndieWire.
The Neighbor Number 13 centers around a young man who, after being traumatized as a boy due to the constant harassment of other children, seeks vengeance against his tormentors.
According to Wong, "I think we have found a very unique way to frame the story and bring a heroic twist to it that is fresh and surprising and will take audiences on a very thrilling journey."
The film, which is based on a manga series by Santa Inoue, is scheduled...
- 5/15/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
James Wong, director of the first and third films in the Final Destination series, has been tapped to direct The Neighbor Number 13, a remake of Yasuo Inoues Rinjin 13-go, Anant Singh of Distant Horizon said Friday. The film will center around a young man who, traumatized as a boy by the harassment from other children, seeks vengeance against his tormentors. Said Wong, "I think we have found a very unique way to frame the story and bring a heroic twist to it that is fresh and surprising and will take audiences on a very thrilling journey." The film, which is based on a manga series by Santa Inoue, is scheduled to begin production in late 2010, with a release set for the fall of 2011.
- 5/14/2010
- bloody-disgusting.com
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