Tokyo Eyes

Tokyo at the turn of the 20th century. The police are hunting down a criminal known as “Four Eyes“. Hinano, a teenage girl, stumbles across the mysterious K who has decided to become the guardian of justice. Through his thick lenses he aims at the victims but misses every time. Whether he really misses or not remains a mystery. In Tokyo Eyes, just like in reality, nothing is the way we think it is. The glasses are not meant to help the sight and the gun is not the lethal weapon. Inspired by the innocent Hinano, K gradually abandons his mask of vigilante justice and returns to reality. Only to be hit by a bullet and by a woman.

Jean-Pierre Limosin used to be a film critic in Cahier du Cinema. He encountered his colleague Alain Bergala, at the end of the seventies, and together they set up a photography and video studio. In 1983 they co-directed a film, “Faux Fuyants,” which was selected for the Critics’ Week at the Cannes Film Festival. Limosin then continued to direct features (“Gardien de nuit” in 1986, “The Other Night” in 1988), before focusing on documentaries in the nineties. His interest in Japan led him to make “Tokyo Eyes” (1998), a thriller, along with two documentaries, one about Takeshi Kitano, the other about Tokyo. In 2002, he directed Novo.