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Arrow Films

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 powerplant, bringing them head to head with the yakuza industrialists behind the development of their turf.

This extraordinary celebration of Japan's punk music scene of the early 1980s thrust Sōgo Ishii (now known by the name of Gakuryū Ishii), the underground filmmaking wunderkind behind such works as Half Human: Einstürzende Neubauten (1986), Angel Dust (1994) and Electric Dragon 80,000V (2001), to the next level and is regularly cited as an early landmark in Japanese cyberpunk cinema.

Special Features

  • High Definition Blu-rayTM (1080p) presentation
  • Original lossless mono Japanese soundtrack
  • Optional English subtitles
  • Brand new audio commentary by Japanese film expert Tom Mes
  • The Punk Spirit of '82: Sōgo 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
  • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Chris Malbon

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East Asian Punk is not for everybody....but hear me out!

Lurking through the era of the Japanese punk filled films from the 70´s and 80´s got you thinking, why is there not continual production of these type of films in this day and age? Gen Z is so much extreme that these guys in the Burst City are nothing compare to the bloke from your school. Poetic manners of the characters are so acted out that are pure in the core of the bikers long time dream. Thank to the Arrow films, we are able to appreciate this era in japanese cinema, where this trend of popular "underground" culture (back then in Japan) is charismatic to the present. Bluray is as always great scan and quality, My dream is to give whole Arrow team (even to guys who ships the orders) shout out in real life. Without Arrow Films, my life wouldn´t be so culturally rich.

2023-12-06by Stepan

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