
In an alternate Japan, territorial street gangs form opposing factions collectively known as the Tokyo Tribes. Merra, leader of the Wu-Ronz tribe of Bukuro joins forces with heavy hitting sadistic gangster Buppa of Buppa Town. With Buppa's support, Merra aims to initiate a gang war between the Wu-Ronz and the Musashino Saru, and in a confrontation between the two attempts to kill popular member of the Musashino Saru - Kai. By mistake, Merra instead kills Kai's friend Tera (a ... (Full plot summary below)
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In an alternate Japan, territorial street gangs form opposing factions collectively known as the Tokyo Tribes. Merra, leader of the Wu-Ronz tribe of Bukuro joins forces with heavy hitting sadistic gangster Buppa of Buppa Town. With Buppa's support, Merra aims to initiate a gang war between the Wu-Ronz and the Musashino Saru, and in a confrontation between the two attempts to kill popular member of the Musashino Saru - Kai. By mistake, Merra instead kills Kai's friend Tera (a Musashino Saru member beloved by members of all Tribes since before their formation). This leads to the joining of forces between all of the Tokyo Tribes in an all out war against Merra and Buppa's forces.
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| L.A. WeeklyAmy NicholsonTokyo Tribe is Sono cackling hysterically while smashing a keytar. Sure, there are a few sour notes, but he's made a great blast of noise. |
| The SkinnyJosh Slater-WilliamsSono's delirious oddity of gang warfare and renewed hope offers a phantasmagoric world unlike much else visualised in live-action cinema. |
| Movie MezzanineTina HassanniaTokyo Tribe is a perfect festival film, a feverish rhapsody that tempers the seriousness of other TIFF films with its astronomic silliness and pitch-perfect urban poetry. |
| Slant MagazineJake ColeSion Sono's film imagines gangs not as rebels without a cause, but a lost generation of displaced, poisoned youths. |
| The Film StageEthan VestbyWhat makes Tokyo Tribe ultimately unique, if still problematic in its sheer amount of chaos, are the underlying politics. |
| Radio TimesTrevor JohnstonSono's hyper-kinetic high jinks will not be to all tastes, but this promises and delivers a quintessentially Japanese level of insanity. |
| Sky CinemaRob DanielIf it's too loud (or too fast, or too weird) you're too old. |
| New York Magazine/VultureBilge EbiriBeneath the goofy plot, the tacky fashions, the fronting rappers, and the exploding bodies, there’s an undeniable earnestness to Tokyo Tribe. It’s the craziest film you’ll see this year, but it’s also — dear God, am I really saying this? — one of the sweetest. |
| SF WeeklySherilyn ConnellyOne of the joys of Japanese cinema is how it not only wholeheartedly embraces genres, but also happily mixes them up. |
| SF CrowsnestFrank OchiengOutwardly frivolous, frenetic and fueled with a bizarre combination of opulence and outlandishness, Tokyo Tribe will indeed stimulate the senses with its hodge-podge of hedonistic heft in the realm of instantaneous insanity. |