Burst City
ActionMusicScience Fiction
6.3/10
|JP
|ja
|115 min
Release Date: 1982-04-09
Overview - Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their fans gather to protest slow, boring, Japanese living.
Production Companies
Toei Central FilmDynamite Productions
User Reviews
Walruse
9/10
Burst City from 1982 is a punk rock operetta with the polemic stance that is essential for the anarchist strains of punk traditions. Sogo Ishii relies upon and extends punk rock aesthetics to a convincing gesamtkunstwerk that interestingly sits very well between the post-apocalypse of the time and the cyberpunk that is yet to come. But most of all, I'd say Burst City is a war movie. A war movi...
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