Thanks for the memories!

People are voting emotionally.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Mixture of Kung-Fu fighting , Hip Hop Musicals , Colorful settings , and Sexy Women

I have watched this film several times all two hours of it and than goodness Japan is not infested with PC death spiral. The actors are wonderful and so is this movie.While America is caught in the grip of a Taliban influenced PC attack where mothers make their children ashamed of their bodies, principals scare their students of humanity and restaurants ban attractive women's dresses here we have dance, beat, rape, stabbing, stealing, betrayal, lust, prostitution, graft, corrupt cops you name it and all depicted as normal and morally redeeming. This is humanity being human and film taking us where fantasy and fancy lies.I would advise anyone who wants to think better of their fellow man to find this film and watch it. Tokyo Tribe is fun, active, exciting, original and yes sexy (take that lazy moralizers).

Well, what can I say? That was something a bit different! If I had known in advance that what I was about to watch was a Japanese hip-hop musical about warring gangs in an alternate Tokyo, I suspect at least a few alarm bells might have gone off. The idea is so wilfully absurd that the movie could easily fall into car crash territory. But you are probably thinking that there is a 'however' coming up here and you would indeed be correct, as in the event Tokyo Tribe proved to be a properly exhilarating movie experience. The originality on display was pretty mind-boggling not just in terms of basic idea but also in execution. There is a story but I realised pretty early on that paying full attention to it was not really a primary requirement. Needless to say, I can't actually be bothered summarising the plot synopsis. What this one is resolutely all about is style over substance. For some viewers that is a cinematic crime but I personally think that we get a little too much 'substance' and not anywhere near enough genuine style in our modern movies. Tokyo Tribe is an example of a film that is great, great style and is pure cinema from start to finish.Seemingly it was based on a manga comic, which isn't exactly surprising given the sheer insanity that unfolds on the screen. It has an extremely colourful aesthetic with great sets and costuming. The look is constantly interesting and surprising, a fantastic spectacle overall. But this crazy film also has most of its dialogue rapped as well. I hadn't even been aware of Japanese hip-hop before this so it was an education I can tell you. The style of filming with lots of long takes was somewhat similar to the style that many rap music videos adopted, so this is another disparate element mixed into the overall concoction. So what do we have here? Well, we have martial arts fighting (although not so much so that it gets overbearing), some good old fashioned sexploitation elements, a beat-boxing maid, a Mr Big gangster with an ever-present dildo, human furniture, a tank driving Samurai, a super-strong black henchman, (very) cute Japanese women of various shapes and sizes, some men with misguided hair-cuts, a wheel of death, a depressed youth in a hoodie who pitches up every so often like a Greek Chorus, comic-book violence and bling weaponry. There is even more going on than this as well but that's the best I can do for now. On the whole, this is a highly entertaining action-comedy-musical with a real energy and originality. This really does define the term one of a kind!

Heaps of potential wasted.Tokyo Tribe is a wasted opportunity. The central plot was interesting: scores of organised crime gangs, each with their own patch, in constant competition but trying to avoid each other until something sparks them all off. Throw in the innocent bystanders caught in the middle and this had the makings of a gritty and original drama.However, from the start it goes wrong. Instead of being gritty, it is more a musical. Immediately feels like West Side Story but less campy and with far worse music.There is action but it is silly, degenerating into the usual martial arts acrobatics, mass brawls and Benny Hill-like running around and around from one contrived battle to another.Incredibly disappointing.