Tokyo Tribe(TOKYO TRIBE)

Village Voice by Amy Nicholson

Tokyo 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.

The Hollywood Reporter by Clarence Tsui

Tokyo Tribe is a spectacle more in its form than its content.

Variety by Dennis Harvey

The 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.

The A.V. Club by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Sion 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.

Slant Magazine by Jake Cole

Sion Sono's film imagines gangs not as rebels without a cause, but a lost generation of displaced, poisoned youths.

The Guardian by Leslie Felperin

Amusingly 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.

Los Angeles Times by Martin Tsai

While 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.

The New York Times by Mike Hale

"The Warriors” and the “Mad Max” films will come to mind as you watch Tokyo Tribe, and from scene to scene Mr. Sono’s visual inventiveness and sure hand with action stand up to the comparison. The cumulative effect, however, is numbing.

Movie Nation by Roger Moore

It’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.

Time Out London by Tom Huddleston

It’s a wild, at times exhilarating watch – but an exhausting one.