Burst City Japanese Cyberpunk classic!

Cult classic coming June 27th 2006 on DVD from Discotek Media. Boasting an impressive lineup of early 80's Japanese punk bands, including The Stalin, Battle Rockers, The Roosters, and Inu. Never before available in the US. This is the film that started the Japanese cyberpunk films. Directed by Sogo Ishii whos work has inspired everyone from Takashi Miike to Shinya Tsukamoto.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Japan
• Asian
• Cyberpunk
• action

[Foxboy106]

...so where's the cyber? Can't have CYBERpunk w/o CYBER.

[Enysvar]

they all have microchips installed in their brains, but you cant see it ofcourse

[Dystopian420]

@saikosomatic I can agree with that. I just hope we will all try to move beyond the dystopia. We live in it, we can learn from this genre, but I hope we will not get comfortable with it. I believe it is a thing to overcome. I believe technology should advance and be clean, green and free. Be well.

[saikosomatic]

@Dystopian420

Dystopian "Tokyo Cyber Punk" would be a better equivalent, Japanese Cyber Punk is a different genre some would argue...but really that's all semantics some. Good movies none the less and they all deal with crumbling societies in one way or another. Burst City can be comparable say to Akira or the american equivalent of Class of 1984, even Aussi's Mad Max...where we saw the youth culture as what to be feared and would overtake our ideals of civilized society.

[Dystopian420]

@saikosomatic Dystopian would be a better description, in that case. ;-)

[Darkninja282]

@PhreakStep Nothing to do with punk, are you kidding me? Please tell me you are, punk music if you listen to bands like green day and the ramones its politically left wing and anti corp. Us anarchists started punk, and don't get us confused with that rebel label. God we hate that.

[youwerecool]

@PhreakStep

the plot revolves around a mega corporation building a nuclear reactor in a bunch of punk rock mutants neighborhood. cyberpunk is a made up word. its close enough for the title of a youtube video. stop being butthurt

[MrBranagain]

Those coppers at the end look kinda cyber-y.

[SuperiFox]

@PhreakStep Well, kinda... it has something to do with Punk mentality.

[SeanShannohan]

@Sjohnson20 AHAHAHA I thought I reconized the over all tone or feel of this movie! I love a lot of Takashi Miike's movies. I can really see some similarities in the directors. Did you end up buying this movie when it came out? It looks really vintage ya know. I think I would enjoy this movie on DVD, but many Japanese movies go out of print fast in America and I don't think I'll be able to find it. Do you have any ideas?

[saikosomatic]

two forms, punk culture films set in dysotopic societies about worlds already crumbling from a culture that was highly industrialized or films more in tune with the works of Shiji Tsukamoto or Shozin Fukui that deal with characters dealing with violence and sexuality in a grotesque fashion in a world that is industrialized and restrained...almost hidden, underground as the film makers themselves. It almost dada like, as most predict the same dysotopic future or bring about the end themselves.

[saikosomatic]

Actuallyno Japanese Cyber Punk is very different from American Cyber punk, many attribute it to works of a small group of directors that came out of the 80s, they're films are less about science and technology and built more on the ideas of industrialization and absurdity. The films due in fact have a connection to punk and rock, as some utilize very "noise" oriented audio to stimulate your audio senses as well as visual stimulation. Japanese Cyber Punk can be interpreted in