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Essential CinemaBurst City
Directed by Gakuryū Ishii
Saturday, May 16, 6 pm
Sunday, May 17, 3 pm
“Burst City resolutely puts the punk into the Japanese cyberpunk movement that emerged in the early 1980s.” —Budd Wilkins, Slant
Fans of Tetsuo: The Iron Man take note! An early landmark in cyberpunk cinema, Burst City is an experimental, dystopian musical from underground filmmaker Gakuryū (formerly Sogo) Ishii that ignites a Molotov cocktail of Mad Max-style carnage and real-life Japanese punk bands. In a derelict industrial wasteland on the outskirts of Tokyo, two rival bands and their unruly mobs of fans gather for a Battle of the Bands-style protest against a nuclear power plant, bringing them face-to-face with the yakuza industrialists that want to erase their turf. 1982, Japan, DCP, in Japanese with English subtitles, 115 minutes.
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Speed Art Museum, 2035 S 3rd Street,Louisville,KY,United States
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