Gakuryu ISHII 石井岳龍
Charge! Hooligans Of Hakata
突撃！博多愚連隊
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The film that put ISHII on the map, thanks to a Grand Prize at Japan's bastion of indie cinema, the PIA Film Festival. Those who know the director mainly for his punk style films will be surprised, not to mention delighted, by this ode to 1970s yakuza movies à la Kinji FUKASAKU. A movie like a good rock band: it stars a charismatic young cast, has energy to spare, and thumps with a pace and rhythm that sweep you breathlessly along.
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Charge! Hooligans Of Hakata (NC 2013)
突撃！博多愚連隊
Totsugeki! Hakata gurentai
Japan 1978
75 minutes
Production
Kyoeisha
World sales
Dragon Mountain
Cast
Masayoshi SHIMIZU, Tomio YATANI, Ryo HIGUCHI, Tetsuo HIJIKATA, Shigeru IZUMIYA
About Gakuryu ISHII
石井岳龍
Gakuryu (Sogo) ISHII was born in Fukuoka in 1957. His dystopian punk rock musical BURST CITY (1982) made him one of the precursors of the Japanese cyberpunk movement of the 1980s. Since then he has worked with renowned Japanese actors and international punk bands on numerous short and feature films. NIPPON CONNECTION dedicated a retrospective to his work in 2013.