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At first, the Tokyo Eyes original script was written like a traditional French film, with local cast and crew and the movie had to be shot in Paris. However, the director suddenly changed his mind and decided to shoot it in Japan with a Japanese cast. The director and the chief-operator, both French, did not speak Japanese but they decided to take the challenge anyway and accepted to work with a Japanese cast and crew.

The casting for the two main characters, K and Hinano, took three months but finally Jean-Pierre Limosin chose two famous tarento (TV personalities), Shinji Takeda (b. 1972, Sapporo, Hokkaido) and Hinano Yoshikawa (b. 1979, Tokyo, Honshu).

Another Japanese veteran actor which is often associated with Kitano, Ren Ôsugi, also made a cameo in Tokyo Eyes, as an antipathetic bus driver.

A Tokyo Eyes sequence with Hinano wearing an umbrella is a reference to a scene in Jean-Luc Godard's 1961 romance-comedy A Woman Is a Woman (1961). Hinano is dressed the same way as Anna Karina, playing Angela, and wears an umbrella like in the French Nouvelle Vague classic.

One of the scenes in Tokyo Eyes (1998) shows Hinano mimicking Ai's moves on the window in reference to a scene in Tokyo Decadence (1992). This Ryû Murakami 1991 erotic drama is better known as Tokyo Decadence.