"Tokyo Rhapsody" consists of 11 short films all centered around the music genre known as "Kayokyoku". Kayokyoku is a catch-all term to describe the music that defined two generations of post-war Japan. Although the term survives, it has a strong connotation with a simpler, pre-"Economic Bubble" era when Japanese people shared a common identity in the reconstruction of their nation.
妻夫木聡
伊藤歩
ベンガル
蛭子能収
大杉漣
武田真治
瀬戸朝香
高橋惠子
余貴美子
"Tokyo Rhapsody" consists of 11 short films all centered around the music genre known as "Kayokyoku". Kayokyoku is a catch-all term to describe the music that defined two generations of post-war Japan. Although the term survives, it has a strong connotation with a simpler, pre-"Economic Bubble" era when Japanese people shared a common identity in the reconstruction of their nation.
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved.
The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect of a better life.
An experimental, psychedelic odyssey through Japanese subculture experienced via the eyes of a disillusioned young man, who must contend with intense familial dysfunction, psychosexual alienation, and existentialist malaise.
A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is apparently trying to find some sort of appeasement for the fact that her lover has married.
Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by hiding it in their vaginas. She is tortured, and manages to escape, fighting both the male yakuzas and a gang of female thieves.
An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.
In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist composer of the 1930s. She is pregnant by a man she does not want to marry and has found a kindred spirit in a used bookstore owner who aids her research.
ยูกิโอะเป็นนักเรียนมัธยมปลายธรรมดาๆ ที่ใช้ชีวิตไปเรียนหนังสือและหลีกเลี่ยงคนรังแก จนกระทั่งเขาได้พบกับริวสึเกะ อัจฉริยะด้านกีตาร์ พวกเขาจึงก่อตั้งวงดนตรีร็อคชื่อ BECK ร่วมกับไทระ ชิบะ และซาคุ เมื่อความนิยมของพวกเขาเพิ่มขึ้น ความอันตรายก็เพิ่มขึ้นตามไปด้วย เมื่ออดีตของริวสึเกะตามหลอกหลอนเขา
โค้ชผู้โชคไม่ดีได้รับการว่าจ้างให้เตรียมทีมนักเต้นชาวอเมริกันที่เก่งที่สุดสำหรับการแข่งขันระดับนานาชาติที่ดึงดูดนักเต้นที่ดีที่สุดจากทั่วทุกมุมโลก แต่ชาวอเมริกันไม่ได้ชนะมาเป็นเวลา 15 ปีแล้ว
A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan.