Tokyo Eyes
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| Directed by | Jean-Pierre Limosin |
| Produced by |
Kenzo Horikoshi Hengameh Panahi |
| Written by | Jean-Pierre Limosin Santiago Amigorena Philippe Madral Yuji Sakamoto |
| Starring |
Shinji Takeda Hinano Yoshikawa Kaori Mizushima Tetta Sugimoto Ren Osugi Masayuki Yui Takeshi Kitano |
| Music by | Xavier Jamaux |
| Cinematography | Jean-Marc Fabre |
| Edited by | Danielle Anezin |
| Distributed by |
Lumen Films (France) Euro Space (Japan) |
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Release date
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September 9, 1998 (France) October 24, 1998 (Japan) |
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Running time
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90 min. (France cut) 98 min. (int'l version) |
| Country | France Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Tokyo Eyes is a 1998 French-Japanese thriller-romance film, starring Shinji Takeda and Hinano Yoshikawa, directed by French film/documentary maker Jean-Pierre Limosin. It was selected for the 1998 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard category.
At first, the Tokyo Eyes original script was written like a traditional French film, with local cast and crew and the movie had to be shot in Paris. However, the director suddenly changed his mind and decided to shoot it in Japan with a Japanese cast.
The director and the chief-operator, both French, did not speak Japanese but they decided to take the challenge anyway and accepted to work with a Japanese cast and crew.
The casting for the two main characters, K and Hinano, took three months but finally Jean-Pierre Limosin chose two famous tarento (TV personalities), Shinji Takeda (b. 1972, Sapporo, Hokkaidō) and Hinano Yoshikawa (b. 1979, Tokyo, Honshū).
In 1998, Takeda had previously played in five films including A New Love in Tokyo (Ai no shinsekai) and Shichi-nin no otaku: cult seven. He was an experienced TV series actor already playing in seventeen series broadcast on Fuji TV, TBS and TV Asahi. He also appeared on some variety shows.
Hinano Yoshikawa is a fashion model since the age of 14, she is also a singer and a young cinema actress who made her debut the year before in Moonlight Serenade (瀬戸内ムーンライトセレナーデ). She also debuted in TV series and appeared in variety shows.
In Tokyo Eyes, K (Shinji Takeda, 26), a young Japanese debugger and free-lance programmer (also Techno LPs collector in his free time), is a vigilante who non-fatally shoots wrong-doers as he encounters them in his daily life.
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