Rent Burst City (1982)
3.2 of 5 from 51 ratings
1h 55min
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- 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 somewhere 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 the yakuza industrialists behind the development of their turf.
- Actors:
- Michirô Endô, Kansai Eto, Shigeru Izumiya, Takanori Jinnai, Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu, Kou Machida, Akaji Maro, Shigeru Muroi, Shinya Ohe, Yasuto Sugawara, Tarô Suwa, Jûgatsu Toi, Umanosuke Ueda, Genki Yoshimura, Mayumi Ômura
- Directors:
- Gakuryu Ishii
- Producers:
- Hiroshi Kobayashi
- Writers:
- Jûgatsu Toi
- Aka:
- Bakuretsu Toshi
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Music & Musicals, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Countries:
- Japan
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 09/11/2020
- Run Time:
- 116 minutes
- Languages:
- Japanese Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Brand new audio commentary by Japanese film expert Tom Mes
- The Punk Spirit of '82: Sogo Ishii on 'Burst City', an exclusive new 56-minute interview with the director
- Bursting Out, an exclusive 27-minute interview with the academic and independent filmmaker Yoshiharu Tezuka on jishu eiga and the making of 'Burst City'
- Original Trailer
- Image Gallery
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Reviews (1) of Burst City
Punk for the Eyeballs - Burst City review by griggs
It feels like someone found a portal to the the future, filmed it in a scrapyard, dared you to keep up. Then they hurled back the result in time. One minute it seems decades ahead of its era; the next it’s stacked in early-‘80s urban dread.
Burst City runs on pure collision, gangs, musicians, construction, corruption — all grinding together until it feels less like a plot and more like a pressure system. It’s also frankly, less a narrative feature than a showcase for Japanese punk acts. That doesn’t matter, because the music isn’t the background, it’s the motor.
The soundtrack beats like a city having a nervous breakdown, and the film matches it beat for beat. Punk and post-punk for the eyeballs, not the ears: rough, loud and sometimes exhausting. The messiness is part fo the buzz, even when it tests your patience. Not a tidy classic by a long shot, but a bracing one.
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