An acrylic painting on wood panel, titled 'Tokyo Trash Baby', of a woman lying with her stomach on a blue t-shirt with her rear exposed. Her face is looking away at what she's holding: a roman candle going off.

Tokyo Trash Baby

(2000, Ryuichi Hiroki)

I feel so lucky to have been alive at the right time, to have lived in the right area by the gay adult video store which held so many great (and not adult) foreign films, and I was able to find Tokyo Trash Baby. It’s a fun story that follows the geek extremes of a woman in Tokyo who collects the trash of a neighbor she's in love with but is too afraid to confront him. I think most people may have a hard time enjoying this, but I think for a lot of us who enjoy staying home and obsessing over something, this hits that scenario dead on.


A 4-panel screenshot of the film 'Tokyo Trash Baby' showing scenes of the life of Miyuki, played by Mami Nakamura, such as her apartment and serving job at an old coffeeshop. An animated gif of a scene from the film 'Tokyo Trash Baby', from the perspective of inside a trash bag, showing Miyuki pulling trash out of it. A 4-panel screenshot of the film 'Tokyo Trash Baby' showing Miyuki's obsession with her rocker neighbor such as picture of him on her wall and digging through his trash.

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