loosely on topic - Tokyo Eyes

[Aaron Gerow]

Lisa Roosen-Runge wrote,

>Last night I was watching a French talk show (from France 2) on Cannes,
>which featured Jean-Pierre Limosin and his new film Tokyo Eyes.
>It seemed to be filmed in Tokyo and features the young actors Takada Ai
>and Takeda Shinji (according to the IMDB). There is a cameo segment from
>Beat Takeshi.  I don't speak French, so unfortunately I can only pass on
>snippets my friend translated here and there.  It seems to be a "polar"
>or thriller, and the segments shown looked quite stylishly shot. 

One of the wide-shows here did a long segment on Takeda and the other 
star, (the ditzy and, sometimes I wonder, brain dead) idol Yoshikawa 
Hinano, in Cannes promoting the film.  A big effort was made to emphasize 
how the two were the focus of much media attention, showing French film 
magazines etc. (even though the magazines had, as a caption, only 
"Director Limosin and his two Japanese actors," not mentioning their 
names).  Takeda is supposed to be some kind of weird virtual reality 
otaku who takes up killing people and Hinano-chan the girl who falls for 
him.  The wide-show commentators, always trying to be topical, said this 
was a French director's attempt to depict Japanese youth today.

Aaron Gerow
Yokohama National University
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