What is it about?
This publication examines the rise of punk culture in Japan during the 1970s and how it dovetailed with an emerging movement of DIY film production instigated by young, aspiring, yet professionally inexperienced filmmakers. It then charts how this punk generation of filmmakers helped revive Japan's stagnating film industry during the 1980s and 1990s.
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Why is it important?
In recent years, punk culture and its social influence has received renewed interest in academia. However, these discussions tend to be centred on US and UK-centric phenomena. This publication sheds some much-needed light on the Japanese context.
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This page is a summary of: Anarchy in Japan’s film industry: How punk rescued Japanese cinema, March 2017, Intellect,
DOI: 10.1386/punk.6.1.97_1.
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