Tokyo! (2008): Merde - Grenade Massacre Scene

One of the most shocking scenes from the film Tokyo!, a cinematic triptych of three Tokyo-set stories.

This scene is from Merde, the second short film in the movie.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• tokyo!
• tokyo
• merde
• japanese
• asian
• cinema
• shocking
• grenades
• grenade
• massacre
• leos
• carax
• french
• director
• triptych

[freethoughtmusic]

@TheCurryBread No offense but you might want to take a film studies course through distance education or at night school. Carax makes reference to the Nanking massacre earlier in the film which explains (But does NOT justifiy) Merde's actions. He (Carax) requires you to put in some effort on your own. (Like Jean Cocteau did years earlier). It is not fair to call it a "Cheap attempt" simply because he did not spoon feed you. Cheers.

[oystein127]

@tikusrabun Becuse pretty much everyone in Japan uses transparent umbrellas

[tikusrabun]

wtf why are all the umbrellas in this scene transparent?

[tikusrabun]

wtf why are all the umbrellas in this scene transparent?

[TheCurryBread]

Regardless of what the true intention behind the Merde scenes really is, I think it's lost in the portrayal. Would I have been able to tell that these creepy and poorly comedic scenes had anything to do with the Japanese-Chinese struggles? No. I think it was a cheap attempt and the director wasn't able to get his intention across well enough with this script, assuming he truly had an intention. It's not a catastrophe - it's just... bad.

[TaZ101SAGA]

Why didn't someone just bundle him?

[SpuddCroily02]

yes i have seen it all. and it is genius. this story is great on so many levels like you said.

[Gonko100]

Has anyone of you actually seen the movie? the man-in-green-suit-storyline has very ineresting layers, which you realize when you watch until the very last frame. it's about japan's struggle in regards of the relationship to china and it's historic guilt, while the man in the green suit incorporates an alien,cultural entity, gasping for life by the spirit of a madmanHe hates the innocent, as he says in the court scene,an unleashed vessil that cannot bare harmony. An old, once powerful, entity.

[pyromaanisi]

RENAME THE VIDEO "how the troll found its way to the internet"

[MrJustletmeseeit]

this scene was like something out of GTA walking thru the city throwing gernades at random shit