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Burst City

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6.4(34)19821h 55m2

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.

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Released
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Language
Japanese
  • punk rock
  • biker
  • cyberpunk

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Japan

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Release dates

  • JapanJP

    • Theatrical9 Apr 1982

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Burst City was released on 9 April 1982.

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    Walruse

    1/5/2018

    9/10

    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…

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