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.
Sound
Live performances that feel genuinely dangerous and barely controlled.
Practical Effects
Pre-digital Tokyo wasteland built with actual scrap and sweat.
Director
Gakuryu Ishii
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gakuryu Ishii cast actual punk bands instead of actors, leading to genuine on-set brawls that made it into the film.
This predates Akira by six years and arguably influenced Otomo's vision of biker gang dystopia — the DNA is unmistakable.
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