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13 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Slant MagazineJake ColeSlant MagazineJake ColeSion Sono's film imagines gangs not as rebels without a cause, but a lost generation of displaced, poisoned youths.
- 75The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyThe A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskySion Sono’s hip-hop musical is a chiefly visual pleasure, in part because most of the cast can’t rap worth a damn; its warped frame bounces between shimmering neons and fluorescents, disco-ball samurai suits, living statues, and all kinds of things that have been painted gold for gold’s sake.
- 60VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyThe latest from the culty maker of “Suicide Club,” “Love Exposure” and last year’s TIFF Midnight Madness audience-award winner, “Why Don’t You Play in Hell?,” is so insistently over-the-top from the start that the results are just fairly amusing when they ought to be exhilarating.
- 60Village VoiceAmy NicholsonVillage VoiceAmy NicholsonTokyo Tribe is Sono cackling hysterically while smashing a keytar. Sure, there are a few sour notes, but he's made a great blast of noise.
- 60The GuardianLeslie FelperinThe GuardianLeslie FelperinAmusingly tacky and offensive though it is, proceedings grow a bit monotonous, because all the tunes have pretty much the same beat and everything is pitched at the same hysterical, OTT level.
- 60Time Out LondonTom HuddlestonTime Out LondonTom HuddlestonIt’s a wild, at times exhilarating watch – but an exhausting one.
- 50Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreIt’s a garish mess, more interesting as a concept and production design exercise than as a movie. But you’ve never seen anything quite like it.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterClarence TsuiThe Hollywood ReporterClarence TsuiTokyo Tribe is a spectacle more in its form than its content.
- 40Los Angeles TimesMartin TsaiLos Angeles TimesMartin TsaiWhile the gangsta lyrics and posturing are laden with cliché, there's still some novelty in sustaining a rap narration for nearly two hours. But whenever the music stops, the film can never stay in the game by landing on a figurative chair.