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From Akira to Crazy Thunder Road, Japan’s delinquent biker movies gripped post-war Japan. Here, James Balmont unpacks the legacy left in their tracks
From Crazy Thunder Road to Akira, James Balmont talks us through five thrilling Japanese features within the cyberpunk canon
A man wakes up one morning to find himself slowly transforming into a living hybrid of meat and scrap metal; he dreams of being sodomised by a woman with a snakelike, strap-on phallus. Clandestine experiments of sensory depravation and mental torture unleash psychic powers in test subjects, prompting them to explode into showers of black pus or tear the flesh off each other's bodies in a sexual frenzy. Meanwhile, a hysterical cyborg sex-slave runs amok through busy streets whilst electrically charged demi-gods battle for supremacy on the rooftops above. This is cyberpunk, Japanese style: a br...