Tokyo!

Tokyo! offer an omnibus of multiple independent-minded foreign directors delivering striking views of life in Tokyo. Michel Gondry (Be Kind Rewind, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) will be the most familiar with domestic auds but helmers Leos Carax (Lovers on the Bridge) and Bong Joon-ho (The Host, how can you not like a guy named Bong?) provide the more vivid segments. Even though none of the directors are Japanese most of the roles are performed by Japanese thesps and the architecture of Tokyo combines to give the various tales a kind of unity.
Gondry's piece comes first and posits that a plague of endless rain has turned people part-fish. Through a surreal bit of cinematic indulgence we see a woman become a piece of furniture first by showing quick shots of her wooden hand and then watching her walk into a bus stop naked only for the camera to turn the corner and reveal a wooden chair.
Bong's story comes last and deals with a lonely man who has not had eye contact with another human in over ten years. The mise-en-scene comes alive as Bong stages a very believable earthquake by merely shaking the camera, showing crouching people in medium close-ups and slowly panning down a street full of people who are too afraid to move.
The Carax tale involves a strange person who lives underneath Tokyo in the sewer system. Whenever he pops onto the street he randomly kills people, either with grenades he found in his underground lair or, frankly, by scaring them to death with his horrific countenance. Turns out this misfit speaks a language only spoken by two other people on Earth, one of whom is a French lawyer who comes to the man's defense. Their common language is made up of whistles, gibberish and slapping one's face.
The payoff to Tokyo! exists in a realm of existential coolness. There's a little food for though, but for the most part we're just swallowing a midnight snack.