7.4
“Attention!!”
Burst City (1982)
April 9, 19821h 55mJA
6.3
31 votes
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.
Director
Gakuryu IshiiWriters
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Status
Released
Original Language
Japanese
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Production Companies
Toei Central FilmDynamite Productions
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Walruse
9.0Burst 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 movie where the trenches have been exchanged for a dystopic industrial slum and the main weapons are words, clubs and guitars. The anti-hero protagonists are the dynamic constellations of punk rockers, gr…
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