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Films like Tokyo!.

Tokyo! (2008) reads as Neutral, steady, measured drama / fantasy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Mr. Nobody (2009) poster
1. Mr. Nobody2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Wild Grass (2009) poster
2. Wild Grass2009

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Endless Poetry (2016) poster
3. Endless Poetry2016

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

The Science of Sleep (2006) poster
4. The Science of Sleep2006

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (2012) poster
5. You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Saddest Music in the World (2003) poster
6. The Saddest Music in the World2003

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Her (Spike Jonze) — re-pass (2013) poster
7. Her (Spike Jonze) — re-pass2013

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

I Lost My Body (2019) poster
8. I Lost My Body2019

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Moonage Daydream (2022) poster
9. Moonage Daydream2022

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

WWW: What a Wonderful World (2006) poster
10. WWW: What a Wonderful World2006

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a chilly detachment.

Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015) poster
11. Eisenstein in Guanajuato2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Skins (2017) poster
12. Skins2017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Tokyo!’s neighbours — where are yours?

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