For anyone who'd been binging on Japanese cinema for the past three decades ... 80,000 Volts), with whom Asano played in the noise-punk group Mach 1.67. The sadistic bleached-blond yakuza with ...

Kenichi Ugana's "The Gesuidouz" is a delightful deadpan oddity about a Japanese punk group ... she seldom strays from the character's icy stillness, though she reveals a stunning sense of warmth ...

Akira Tsuneoka, founding member of and drummer for Japanese punk band Hi-STANDARD, has passed away. He was 51 years old. The band announced his passing in a statement on Facebook which reads, With ...

“He’s the most important person in Japanese garage rock,” says music promoter Toshi Maeda, who was born in Japan, has lived in Australia since 1996 and is a member of punk band Mach Pelican.

That being said, Jack White recently gifted one of his signature guitars to a musician he called his “new favorite guitar player,” and she’s a member of the Japanese punk band Otoboke Beaver.