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Burst City (1982)
PREVIOUSLY-VIEWED / FORMER RENTAL
VHS / NTSC
RARE JAPANESE IMPORT
LABEL: TOEI VIDEO
YEAR: 1982
AKA: BAKURETSU TOSHI
DIRECTOR: Sogo Ishii (Crazy Thunder Road, Panic In High School, Charge! Hooligans of Hakata)
CAST: Michirou Endo, Shigeru Izumiya, Takanori Jinnai, Kou Machida, Shigeru Muroi, Shinya Ohe, Mayumi Omura, Yasuhito Sugawara, Umanosuke Ueda
COUNTRY: Japan
NOT RATED / SP MODE / NTSC / COLOR / 116m
Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their fans gather to protest the construction of a nuclear power plant. Riot police and the factory owner's yakuza friends soon move in to break it up. However, the arrival of a pair of mysterious, metal-clad bikers and a revolt among the disgruntled construction crew makes for a situation that spirals dangerously out of control. Directed by the innovative SOGO ISHII (ELECTRIC DRAGON 80,000V, GOJOE, ANGEL DUST), this obscure art house epic boasts an impressive lineup of early 80's Japanese punk bands including THE STALIN, BATTLE ROCKERS, THE ROOSTERS, and INU. An eclectic mix of Mad Max-style imagery with yakuza elements, filtered though a punk sensibility, this Z-Grade gem reveals the seeds of many of the developments in contemporary Japanese cinema and beyond. This film is nearly a lost masterpiece of extreme cinema that has influenced everyone from TAKASHI MIIKE to SHINYA TSUKAMOTO.
VHS FEATURES:
- Japanese Language Only
- No English Language or Subtitles
- Presented in Letterbox
- LONGER THAN R1 DVD VERSION
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