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Burst City( 1982)

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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.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Takanori Jinnai

      Command Sasaki

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      Shigeru Izumiya

      Kuronuma

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      Kou Machida

      Mad Brother

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      Shigeru Muroi

      Speed Killer

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      Hitomi Tsurukawa

      Miracle God's Evil

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      Shinya Ohe

      Flying Kazato

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      Hiromi Hiraguchi

      Lolicon Politician

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      Mayumi Ohbayashi

      Blue

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      Ken Yoshizawa

      Kirishima

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      Umanosuke Ueda

      Kikukawa

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      Jugatsu Toi

      Mad Brother

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      Masayuki Watanabe

      Speed Killer

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      LaSalle Ishii

      Speed Killer

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      Takayasu Komiya

      Speed Killer

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      Michiro Endo

      Mad Stalin

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      Shintaro Sugiyama

      Mad Stalin

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      Katsuyuki Shinohara

      Man with Mechanical Arms

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      Kazuo Komizu

      Eyepatch Man

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      Jun Etoh

      Dread Man

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      Kansai Eto

      Dread Man

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      Saburo Tamura

      Battle Police

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      Kōji Wada

      Kikukawa's Subordinate

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      Gilyak Amagasaki

      Man in Military Uniform

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      Daisuke Iijima

      Auto Mechanic

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      Shinbō Minami

      TV Commentator

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      Tarō Suwa

      Factory Manager

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      Makoto Tezuka

      House Guest

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      George Iida

      Oxygen Cylinder Man

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      Keiko Takahashi

      Woman Singing with a Razor

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    A review by Walruse

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    Written by Walruse on Fri Jan 05 2018
    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 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, gre...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

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    Revenue

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    Keywords

    • punk rock
    • biker
    • cyberpunk