Five thrilling Japanese features within the cyberpunk canon
a bizarre and barely comprehensible one-hour short from poet and musician Shigeru Izumiya – who had previously penned a large portion of the music forOstensibly, the film concerns conspirators who kidnap an android and transport it to an abandoned warehouse, only for it to disintegrate – releasing a psycho-active substance that warps the minds of all those around it. You’d be hard-pressed to work this out based on the visuals alone, though.
though perhaps an even more accurate parallel is referred to by the film’s own cage-bound android. Her name, as revealed by a line of on-screen text, is Guernica – referencing the Surrealist monochrome painting by Picasso, which depicts chaos, violence and suffering. It’s a fitting metaphor for the wider cyberpunk aesthetic in itself.
– a delirious 30-minute short about a thug in a gruelling foot-chase, made using money left over from the distribution funds earned forby Katsuhiro Otomo – the man who, seven years later, would deliver an international cyberpunk sensation inCrazy Thunder Road, Akira tells the story of a biker gang in a crime-ridden future – with the latter’s technologically-advanced metropolis of Neo-Tokyo rising from the ashes of a capital city destroyed following the outbreak of World War Three. There, a young ruffian named Tetsuo suffers a horrific motorcycle accident and is then kidnapped by government forces, before being subjected to a series of inhumane experiments.
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