The entries aren't equally strong, of course, but each comes from a sharp outsider's perspective, approaching Tokyo as a strange, mysterious organism that infects the populace.

Carax, who hadn't made a movie since "Pola X" in 1999 comes off best.

Though these vignettes appear frivolous and inconsequential when set beside the directors' features, they will tickle the funny bones of a general audience. A safe choice for fantastic fests, worldwide cinemas will open to the kind of audiences who bought tickets to see "Paris J'taime" or "To Each His Own Cinema."

Mutants abound as each episode trips the light fantastic.

Both in its parts and in the sum of them Tokyo! is playfully and sometimes disorientingly apocalyptic.