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Eyes
Jean Pierre Limosin France/Japan
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| Tokyo, the end of the Century. With such a setting, Jean Pierre Limosin's
new film, a French-Japanese co-production, can't help but seem intriguing.
On the face of it, Tokyo Eyes is a thriller, but it is certainly not a
conventional one.
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The police are trying to hunt down the killer, 'Four Eyes.' K, as he is called, is a vigilante with a difference. He wears strange distorting glasses and somehow contrives to miss his victims whenever he shoots at them. In Tokyo Eyes, nothing is what it appears. K meets Hinano and gradually gives up on both his 'role playing' and his video games to return to reality. Both 'a bullet and a woman touch him,' or so the publicity proclaims. With this film, Jean Pierre Limosin returns to feature filmmaking after several years as a director of TV documentaries. He actually wanted to shoot the film in Paris but, for financial reasons, contacted both French Producer Hengameh Panahi from Lumen Films and Kenzo Horikoshi from Japanese company, Eurospace. Iranian-born Panahi is President of Celluloid Dreams, the outfit handling the international sales of the movie. She has close ties with the Japanese market. Kenzo Horikoshi is not just a producer but a well-known distributor and exhibitor in Japan. Takeshi Kitano, who won the Golden Lion in last year's Venice Film Festival with his movie Hana-bi (which was also handled by Celluloid Dreams), appears as 'Le Yakuza'. A huge TV star in Japan and fast-becoming one of the country's best-known filmmakers abroad, Kitano will certainly raise the international profile of Tokyo Eyes. It's also worth paying special attention to Xavier Jamaux's moody and
hypnotic music.
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