Burst City
1982 : 1 hour 56 minutes
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Director: Gakuryu Ishii
synopsis
Burst City is an explosive Molotov cocktail of dystopian sci-fi, Mad Max-style biker wars against yakuza gangsters and the police, and riotous performances from members of the real-life Japanese punk bands The Stalin, The Roosters, The Rockers and INU. In a derelict industrial wasteland on the outskirts of Tokyo, two rival punk bands and their unruly mobs of fans gather for a Battle of the Bands-style protest against the construction of a nuclear power plant, bringing them head to head with yakuza industrialists. This extraordinary celebration of Japan's punk music scene of the early 1980s from Sōgo Ishii (now known by the name of Gakuryū Ishii) is regularly cited as an early landmark in Japanese cyberpunk cinema.
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