Tôkyô gomi onna

20002000
1h 28m

IMDb RATING

6.7/10

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Comedy Drama Romance

Having a crush on someone, including a neighbour, may not be considered unusual, but there is a line that is crossed when the infatuation includes going through the loved one's trash. Miyuki... Read allHaving a crush on someone, including a neighbour, may not be considered unusual, but there is a line that is crossed when the infatuation includes going through the loved one's trash. Miyuki has crossed the line and cannot stop herself. Her reality, at least, allows her to be mor... Read allHaving a crush on someone, including a neighbour, may not be considered unusual, but there is a line that is crossed when the infatuation includes going through the loved one's trash. Miyuki has crossed the line and cannot stop herself. Her reality, at least, allows her to be more understanding and available when a stalker, in turn, craves her.

IMDb RATING

6.7/10

349

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

114,188

12,369

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Featured review

7/10

The Double Life Of Miyuki!

In "Tokyo Trash Baby" we are dealing with a Miyuki, a coffee-shop waitress, whose platonic love for a musician is manifested by her collecting his trash. She crushes on neighbour/musician Suzuki not by writing stories or shooting pictures, but by vetting his garbage bags and building a shrine . She lives her own life through the imagined, constructed life of his and finally discovering he's a cad. Ryuichi Hiroki sensitively portrayed the character as a parallel to the consumer culture of Tokyo.

Overall, this is part of the 'Love Cinema" series, along with Takashi Miike's "Visitor Q" among others. This is one of my fav as it's a low-key character study, shot on digital video for almost no money, and brings the viewer very close to the experience of Miyuki (Mami Nakamura), which increases sympathy for this troubled character.

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