Burst City story
The film is primarily a showcase for various specific punk rock bands of the time, such as The Roosters, The Rockers, and The Stalin, the film is also purely demonstrative of the culture and attitude of the punk rock community of Japan in the mid-to-late 1970s and the early 1980s, and is considered a defining film of that subculture.
10 total · 3 major · 7 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| a common enemy unites | major | In the end the bikers, workers, and punks all banded together to stop the businessman and his yakuza associates from constructing a nuclear power plant. |
| lawless anarchy dystopia | major | The film is set in the near future in an expansive Tokyo slum that was virtually lawless and in utter shambles. |
| youth rebellion | major | The punk rockers carried themselves with a stick it to the man attitude, and didn't show a care for societal conventions such as they existed. |
| coping with the death of someone | minor | A pimp sobbed upon seeing the brutally murdered body of his prostitute. |
| illegal drug trade | minor | We saw punk rockers popping pills and playing around with syringes in a manner that suggested they were using them to shoot up. |
| nuclear power safety | minor | The residents in a dystopia future attempted to rebel against the construction of a nuclear power plant in their part of Tokyo. |
| organized crime | minor | The Yakuza-like Kikkawa clan was trying to force people to accept the building of a nuclear power plant. |
| passion for vehicles | minor | We saw young rebels getting their kicks by drag racing muscle cars in the streets. |
| prostitution | minor | A young prostitute under the control of a persuasive pimp struggled to find a way out from her pitiable circumstance. |
| the desire for vengeance | minor | A mute and his punk friend rode their bikes around Tokyo hunting down the person who murdered the mute's brother. |