Tokyo Tribes
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Release date August 30, 2014 (2014-08-30) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tokyo Tribes, known in Japanese as Tokyo Tribe-2 (トウキョウ トライブ トゥー, Tōkyō Toraibu Tū), is a seinen manga series by Santa Inoue. Tokyo Tribes was originally serialized from 1997 to 2005 in the urban fashion magazine boon. It is a continuation of the plot in Tokyo Tribe, although many of the characters from that story do not appear in this series. A live action film adaptation directed by Sion Sono was released in Japan on August 30, 2014.
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Plot
Five years after the Shibuya riots, the Tribes of Tokyo have been enjoying a period of relative peace, until Kim and two other members of the Musashino Saru intrude on the territory of the Wu-Ronz in Bukuro. Mera, the leader of Wu-Ronz kills the three Saru, under the assumption that they were members of the Shibuya Saru.
Two days later, after searching for who killed his friends, Musashino Saru member Kai runs into Mera. Old friends in their high school days, the two get into a confrontation that ends up leaving Tera, the leader of Musashino Saru, dead and setting the stage for violence between the Tribes.
Anime
The show was originally planned as a movie which would be distributed by MTV.
Film
A live action film adaptation directed by Sion Sono was released in Japan on August 30, 2014.
Reception
The film earned ¥144.3 million at the Japanese box office by September 14, 2014.