Revenge of the tourists! An omnibus film of slightly different ambitions than “Paris, Je T’aime” and the forthcoming “I Love NY,” “Tokyo!”‘s producers rounded up directors Bong Jun-Hoo (“The Host”), Michel Gondry and Leos Carax (“Lovers on the Bridge”) and asked them to make a movie set in that city. Gondry’s “Interior Design” makes less of the city and the culture in a bit of typical whimsy about a girlfriend whose bones are turning into wood. Bong’s “Shaking Tokyo” is about an agoraphobic, or hikikomori, who hasn’t left his house for a decade and who loves a pizza-delivery girl. Carax’s provocation, “Merde” (Shit), features his usual leading man, Denis Lavant, as a horrible sewer-dwelling monster who terrorizes the streets of the city like a compact Godzilla. (It’s Carax’s first work in ten years or so.) Bong’s quiet piece may be the most haunting of the three-the cinematography by Jun Fukumoto is lovely-but it’s Carax’s that takes the assignment and makes Shit of it in the best possible way: unhinged, gibbering, mad id in the midst of a repressive society that loves its monsters. With Nao Omori, Yu Aoi, YosiYosi Arakawa, Jean-Francois Balmer, Julie Dreyfus, Ayako Fujitani, Ayumi Ito, Teruyuki Kagawa, Ryo Kase. 110m. (Ray Pride)
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