New Bosozoku documentary slated for spring 2011

[jingai]

As a bousouzoku connoisseur, I wanted to share that a friend of mine, Jamie Morris is wrapping up a documentary on Japanese bike gangs that's been in the works for more than five years. It has some great contributors like Ikuya Sato, author of "Kamikaze Biker," ex-bosozoku with photos by the photographer of the margins (and all around cool guy) Masayuki Yoshinaga and the Nagoya shamisen/techno group Bubu.

Here's the website with more info:
http://figure8productions.com/bosozoku_trailer1_large.html

Jamie is asking for donations through Kickstarter and Amazon to help with final production and rights. I contributed myself and thought some of you might, too.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1684035270/sayonara-speed-tribes-kamikaze-bikers-a-documentar

[McTojo]

As a bousouzoku connoisseur
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more info:
http://figure8productions.com/bosozoku_trailer1_large.html

Jamie is asking for donations through Kickstarter and Amazon to help with final production and rights. I contributed myself and thought some of you might, too.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1684035270/sayonara-speed-tribes-kamikaze-bikers-a-documentar

I love these guys!

[Marked Trail]

I love these guys!

[BigInJapan]

Bosozoku weenies are a joke, and it's good to see that they are fading away.

Japanese gangster wannabes take this image:


They start like this:


And end up like this:


Bunch of noisemaking, rabble-rowsing wankers IMHO.

[McTojo]

Bosozoku weenies are a joke, and it's good to see that they are fading away...

I'm in love!!!

[jingai]

Bosozoku weenies are a joke, and it's good to see that they are fading away.
...
Bunch of noisemaking, rabble-rowsing wankers IMHO.

Crap, when did this board become crankyoldgaijin.com complaining about the noisy kids? ; )

If you back the project not only will you piss off BigInJapan but you can also get boso-related swag, tickets to the premier and a DVD of the film.

[hundefar]

As a bousouzoku connoisseur, I wanted to share that a friend of mine, Jamie Morris is wrapping up a documentary on Japanese bike gangs that's been in the works for more than five years. It has some great contributors like Ikuya Sato, author of "Kamikaze Biker," ex-bosozoku with photos by the photographer of the margins (and all around cool guy) Masayuki Yoshinaga and the Nagoya shamisen/techno group Bubu.

Here's the website with more info:
http://figure8productions.com/bosozoku_trailer1_large.html

Jamie is asking for donations through Kickstarter and Amazon to help with final production and rights. I contributed myself and thought some of you might, too.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1684035270/sayonara-speed-tribes-kamikaze-bikers-a-documentar

Great! I have been waiting for this movie for years!

[6810]

Bosozoku weenies are a joke, and it's good to see that they are fading away.

Japanese gangster wannabes take this image:




And end up like this:


Bunch of noisemaking, rabble-rowsing wankers IMHO.

Errm, how are they different? Bike manufacturers aside... Oh, I get it. You're being ironic.

Big props to Mr Morris. Long time potential viewer here too. For support for getting this off the ground.

[BigInJapan]

[Samurai_Jerk]

In North America, obviously there are biker organizations that have ties with organized crime, but more often than not they keep their disputes amongst themselves.

You really don't know what you're talking about:

Hell's Angels

Both the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Criminal Intelligence Service Canada classify the Angels as one of the "big four" motorcycle gangs, contending that members carry out widespread violence, drug dealing, trafficking in stolen goods, and extortion.

[BigInJapan]

You really don't know what you're talking about:
Hell's Angels
Both the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Criminal Intelligence Service Canada classify the Angels as one of the "big four" motorcycle gangs, contending that members carry out widespread violence, drug dealing, trafficking in stolen goods, and extortion.

My immediate knowledge of the Hell's Angels etc. is from the 70's and 80's in Canada.
As I indicated:

more often than not they keep their disputes amongst themselves

It used to be you mostly heard about violence between the rival gangs, of course sometimes with collateral damage.
I acknowledge that things have obviously escalated since then.

[Samurai_Jerk]

My immediate knowledge of the Hell's Angels etc. is from the 70's and 80's in Canada.
As I indicated:

It used to be you mostly heard about violence between the rival gangs, of course sometimes with collateral damage.
I acknowledge that things have obviously escalated since then.

In the 90s they really got out of control. Especially in Canada.

[2triky]

In the 90s they really got out of control. Especially in Canada.

Indeed. National Geographic produced a documentary about the mayhem the Hell's Angels caused in Quebec during the 90s.

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/inside/4692/Overview

[Mulboyne]

Australian bikers are often crime gangs. One prominent leader got stuck in Japan a few years ago. Europe is experiencing a growing problem with them too. It used to be mainly a Northern European thing but they are developing into fully-fledged criminal syndicates in the East now too.

[Catoneinutica]

Did you know that more people die from Black Widows every year than rattlers?

[jingai]

[nikoneko]

Assuming he has seen it, but if he hasn't your friend should check out Godspeed You! Black Emporer* Super cool cultural snapshot documentary.

Looking forward to the new film.

*yes the band took their name from this film.

[jingai]

[nikoneko]

Hmm, yeah that was in not even showing up at my favorite site to get rare cinema (the type I'm not allowed to mention here), and I thought it had just about every obscure film known to man. Did find a vhs rip on dvd for 9800 yen though, a bit pricey for me, but reading about sounds like I'd like to see it too.

I too am looking forward to this new one, true serious documentaries about Japan are really hard to find for some reason. My personal holy grail btw is a detailed pre-war years Japan documentary (the politics, secret police, resistance, etc.) I've probably watched 20 hours or more on the Spanish civil war and even another 10 hours on Chile, pre-Pinochet. But try to find pre-ww2 Japan, zip..

[nikoneko]

Hmm just re-read that. Just to clarify, I meant the type of SITE I can't mention, not the type of rare cinema...

Hmm, yeah that was in not even showing up at my favorite site to get rare cinema (the type I'm not allowed to mention here)

[jingai]

Jamie mentioned he's getting rights for clips from Godspeed You! That's exciting.

Here's a classic troubled youth clip to get BigInJapan riled up about bosozoku destroying the morals of middle schoolers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtcZBq1giKA&feature=related

For obscure movies, here are some of my sources (got Godspeed you Black Emperor, Crazy Thunder Road among other films):

http://www.movierapture.com/links.htm

http://www.notavailableondvd.com/about.html

http://www.kurotokagi.com/

Shocking vidoes http://www.revengeismydestiny.com/cult_movies_asian_invasion.html

http://www.asiancultcinema.com/

[nikoneko]

That first clip, is right on the money. Sad and fascinating at the same time. I keep thinking this whole thing is unique to Japan but just happened to have watched 80 Blocks from Tiffany's. Nuff said. Poor kids are poor kids. Doing what they can to make it. Maybe Japan will spawn the birth of the next hip-hop like these kids did, one can only hope hah.