Tokyo! is made up of three short films by non-Japanese directors, beginning with Michel Gondry’s segment about a young couple looking at apartments portrayed with Gondry’s magic-realist whimsy. It closes with a look by the masterful Korean director Bong Joon-ho at an actual sociological phenomenon in contemporary Japan: the hikikomori, young urban hermits who rarely leave their apartments. Separating these two is the film’s longest and most celebrated sequence, directed by Leos Carax and entitled “Merde.” It stars Denis Lavant as a completely amoral satyr who lives in the sewer, speaks an incomprehensible language and can only be described as filthy, both literally and figuratively. When he is brought to trial for disrupting the lives of unsuspecting inhabitants of Tokyo, Carax seizes the opportunity to satirize the national characters of both the Japanese and the French, particularly the xenophobia and squeamishness of each.