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Completed - JAPANESE - Comedy, Drama - 103 minutes

Previous markets

  • Cannes 2008 (Debut)
  • Toronto 2008 (Premiere)
  • AFM 2008 (Premiere)
Full history

Year of production : 2008

Director(s) : Toshio LEE
Writer(s) : Mika OMORI
Cast : Kenichi MATSUYAMA, Rosa KATO, Yasuko MATSUYUKI, Ryuji AKIYAMA, Yoshihiko HOSODA

Synopsis

Soichi Negishi is a boy (still a virgin) who loves trendy easy-listening pop music like Swedish Pop. He moves to Tokyo, dreaming to make a debut as a professional singer with the music he loves. However, instead, he ends up being hired by “Death-Records” with a slave-like contract, being forced to sing “not trendy”, “not pop” but truly “satanical” Death-Metals. Being set up as the lead guitar-vocalist “Johannes Krauser II” of the Death-Metal band “Detroit Metal City”(aka DMC), he ends up making an indie-record debut. Contrary to his sentiment and intention, his inner self and hidden gift as a Metal artist flowers at a staggering speed. And the band becomes a smash hit overnight. DMC crazes the world by its radical performance and hilarious lyrics…

Production

Country(ies) : JAPAN

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