Ajia no gyakushû

1983
30m

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A rock band was also at the source of ASIA STRIKES BACK, originally made to accompany live performances by The Bacillus Army, a punk super group with ISHII on vocals. The film is one of the ... Read allA rock band was also at the source of ASIA STRIKES BACK, originally made to accompany live performances by The Bacillus Army, a punk super group with ISHII on vocals. The film is one of the earliest entries in Japan's cyberpunk cycle, a status only emphasised by the new soundtrac... Read allA rock band was also at the source of ASIA STRIKES BACK, originally made to accompany live performances by The Bacillus Army, a punk super group with ISHII on vocals. The film is one of the earliest entries in Japan's cyberpunk cycle, a status only emphasised by the new soundtrack supplied by Hiroyuki ONOGAWA (Mach 1.67), composer of GOJOE and ELECTRIC DRAGON 80,000 V... Read all

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6Jeremy_Urquhart

It's got something to it.

This is low budget sci-fi at its most o secure, but I think the fact it was relatively short made me not mind so much. A great deal of the time, I wasn't sure what I was looking at.

A story is hard to latch onto, too, since everyone communicates telepathically, represented by big bold letters flashing on screen. Confusing, but cool. It beats the more expected strategy of having internal voices being heard out loud.

Everything looks grimy and the music and sound effects are all very industrial. It's cool and unsettling to just look at and listen to, and if you can get a little out of whatever might be going on here, then that's possibly all the better. More power to you and stuff.