“An absolute gem.”
—Screen Anarchy

“A dispassionate tale of youth on fire but burning itself from the inside out.”
—Windows on Worlds

“A vivid, metropolitan debut … dynamic.”
—Another Magazine

In this “lost” film from Japan’s Lost Decade, kids rule the love hotel and arcade-lined streets of Shibuya. That is until a steely-eyed loner (an inscrutable Chihara Junia) sets out on a violent spree which helps him find purpose — or not — in a two-front battle against skateboarding teens and the Yakuza. PORNOSTAR is a debut befitting director Toshiaki Toyoda’s belief that “the source of imagination and creativity is anger.” Featuring the brooding guitars of Japanese band Dip, this scuzzfest of angst and 20th-century malaise is more than due for a rediscovery.