Burst City (1982)

Original title

爆裂都市

Directed by

Gakuryū Ishii

Genre

cyberpunk, action film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 55m

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 32 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This 1982 Japanese film follows punk rock bands and their fans as they clash with authorities in a dystopian city. It captures the attitude and culture of the Japanese punk scene through concert footage and violent street confrontations.

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What happens

Burst City (Japanese: 爆裂都市 BURST CITY（バースト・シティ）, Hepburn: Bakuretsu Toshi Bāsuto Shiti) is a Japanese dystopian punk rock musical / action film. Released in 1982, the film was directed by Gakuryū Ishii. Primarily a showcase for various specific punk rock bands of the time such as The Roosters, The Rockers, and The Stalin, the film is also purely demonstrative of the culture and attitude of the punk rock community of Japan in the mid-to-late 1970s and the early 1980s, and is considered a defining film of that subculture. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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