ELECTRIC DRAGON 80,000 V / PANIC HIGH SCHOOL
- Saturday, June 8, 8:30 p.m. Cinema in the German Film Museum
- エレクトリック·ドラゴン 80000V
- Japan 2001, Betacam SP, 55 min, Japanese with English subtitles
- Director & Script: Sogo (Gakuryu) ISHII
- Production: Suncent CinemaWorks Inc.
- Director of Photography: Norimichi KASAMATSU
- Music: Hiroyuki ONOGAWA
- World Sales: Wowow
- Cast: Tadanobu ASANO, Masatoshi NAGASE
A self-aware return to ISHII's punk style, this glorious one-hour celebration of noise and style over substance is a cinema experience like no other. Pitting Tadanobu ASANO's high-voltage reptile investigator against Masatoshi NAGASE's lightning-guiding electrician, ELECTRIC DRAGON 80,000 V takes us across Tokyo's most panoramic rooftops and through its narrowest alleys. With its eardrum-shattering soundtrack of punk rock and industrial noise and the explosive clashes between its two leads, this film is as overwhelming a cinema experience as you're ever likely to undergo. (Tom Mes)
- Vorfilm:
- PANIC HIGH SCHOOL
- Koko dai panikku
高校大パニック - Japan 1976, Digibeta, 17 min, Japanese with English subtitles
- Director: Sogo (Gakuryu) ISHII
- World Sales: Dragon Mountain
- Cast: Masanobu UMEZU, Jo NAKAMURA
Sogo ISHII's debut short film PANIC HIGH SCHOOL was shot on 8mm, but it encompasses much of the rage, the energy and the socio-political concerns that would characterise his later works. A high school student snaps and brings a rifle to school with every intention of using it on his teachers and classmates. (Tom Mes)