Cyberpunk
Movie Review Listing
(116 min)
1982 - Action, Music, Cyberpunk - Japan
Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their fans gather to protest the construction of a nuclear power plant. Riot police and the factory owner's yakuza friends soon move in to break it up. However, the arrival of mysterious, metal-clad bikers and a revolt among the disgruntled construction crew makes for a situation that spirals dangerously out of control… This description, taken from the DVD sleeve provides far more linearity, logic and plot than can be found in the actual film. BURST CITY is preoccupied more with conveying the energy than with telling a story, so… be warned: this city is bursting with power, but is certainly not plot-driven!
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Director : Sogo Ishii
Cast : Takanori Jinnai, Michirou Endo, Machizo Machida, Shigeru Izumiya
(90 min)
1997 - Science Fiction, Horror, Experimental, Cyberpunk - Japan
A group of (literally) underground researchers use human guinea pigs, and subject them to extreme noise, pain and lack od oxygen in order to awaken their primal energies - to make them psychic, or some such. When their funding is in danger, they become desperate and start doing even crazier things than before in order to produce results – which only creates more mayhem.
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Director : Shozin Fukui
Cast : Kawase Youta, Nao, Ameya Norimizu, Saitou Sousuke
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