Tokio Baby is a surprisingly refreshing depiction of a somewhat large- scale phenomenon in Finland, where increasingly many teenagers are spellbound by Japanese pop-culture phenomena such as rock music, comics, naive pop music, movies and consumer products. Compared to many other Western countries, Finland is scarcely populated and has but a few larger cities, leaving teenagers different from others somewhat isolated from their demographic's peers.
This short-film approaches the theme with a somewhat anthropological point of view and does not condemn nor glorify the protagonist's naive and possibly manic perception of her world, making it a quite neutral depiction of a significant contemporary component of Finnish life.
This short-film approaches the theme with a somewhat anthropological point of view and does not condemn nor glorify the protagonist's naive and possibly manic perception of her world, making it a quite neutral depiction of a significant contemporary component of Finnish life.
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