Adrift in Tokyo DVD

To see Tokyo in all it's wacky and scenic splendor, take a long walk with Adrift in Tokyo (a.k.a. Tenten). The latest from director Miki Satoshi (Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia ), Adrift in Tokyo is a brilliantly manic road comedy starring the unbeatable tag team of Odagiri Joe (Tokyo Tower - Mom & Me, and Sometimes Dad) and Miura Tomokazu (The Taste of Tea). Both actors are playing roles they could do in their sleep - prickly middle-ager and slacker student with unfortunate hair - and they bring the exact combination of calm calamity and charismatic craziness the film calls for. In the grand tradition of male bonding road movies, Adrift in Tokyo is just the aimless story of two strange guys walking around Tokyo for a few days and the stranger adventures they encounter - and yet, it's so much more. Underachieving law student Takemura (Odagiri Joe) - on his eighth year and counting - has racked up quite a sizable debt in the name of higher education. The urgency of his fi