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For greatness of hip-hop legend movie "Wild Style"

Hip-hop culture is legendary movie that became a chance to spread to the world, "Wild Style" (1983 / Director: Charlie Ehan) until April 9, but revival screenings in our cinema rise.

It became the stage is currently in New York to collect popularity as a land of hip-hop culture born, South Bronx district. The 1970s in this area, there is a history of white on the grounds, such as racial discrimination and escaped to the suburbs. Building landlord we were to abandon the ownership in response to it in the area are the ruins of, such as drug trafficking action by the squatters and the mafia in the government did not take measures went rampant.


Devastation of the city, was followed in the early 1980s when the work was born. The Sakuchu followed by a cityscape that hamstrung enough doubt that it is a New York, scene of women to move alone was out cold sweat and Abunakkashiku. Ruins, crime, that caught the eye in drag ... such brutal dry urban landscape, was the number of graffiti that decorate the body of the building of the wall and train. In addition, late-night club scene. Within the club is full of enthusiasm of young people, show off your lap MC is in a twister placed on a DJ beat. In accordance with the rhythm in the floor B-BOY to deploy a violent break dance .... These representations not "fight", but was "battle" for similarly fighting indicates the magnitude of their power.


Each consists of four major elements of the graffiti / DJ play / Rap / break dance "hip hop culture" is, as the style of self-expression of black young people living in poverty-stricken areas, multiple simultaneous born, while complex to combine is said to have went evolved of. In the same work, brilliant show off the technology that representation who of each genre that has not been known only in some of New York until it came to its own evolved. To starring, graffiti writer Lee George Kyunonesu, a pioneer of the hip-hop scene Fab Five Freddie, DJ Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, wrapper "Double Trouble", a break dance "Rock Steady such as the crew "and the like.



Such as Public Enemies and the Beastie Boys, and have professed that the large number of artists influenced by the work, the work that is to love hip-hop but one that "not be removed". But a number of expressions that unfolds on the screen, the charm is packed transmitted and relentlessly even to those who do not know the hip-hop. Punk movement was the rise in the late 1970s in the United Kingdom, "New Wave", cinema movement was born in the 1950s in France "nouvelle vague", such as the avant-garde theater prosperity that emerged in the 1960s in Japan, it is culture whatever location, people responsible for the early days he shines in common. This is the fun wake up to hip-hop to the machine, but will be one that is fascinated not be the case.

"Wild Style"
Yes the period to 2015, April 9 (Thursday)
Yes theater:Cinema Rise  宇田川町13-17 /ライズビル
Yes hours: 19:20 to 21:00
Yes Rates: On the day the general 1800 yen In addition

Yes Period: April 11, 2015 (Sat) -
Yes theater:Uplink  宇田川町37-18トツネビル2F
Yes Rates: On the day the general 1800 yen In addition
〇 Official:Http://www.uplink.co.jp/wildstyle/

<Related Events>
"Wild Style" Screening + HIPHOP course
"Back to 1983 in TOKYO- that year, what happened in Tokyo -"
Guest: Kuzui KatsuAkira, 荏開 wide Tsu, Barbora

Yes held: 2015 April 15 (Wednesday)
Yes hours: 19:15 Doors open / 19:30 screening ※ screening after the end of the talk show
Yes theater:Uplink/ Udagawacho 37-18 Totsunebiru
Yes Cast:
Kuzui KatsuAkira / Kaz KUZUI
荏開 wide Tsu (writing / DJ / Kyoto Seika University Lecturer)
Barbora (networkers)
Yes Rates: Wednesday Service Day 1,100 yen
〇詳細・予約​:Http://www.uplink.co.jp/event/2015/36717

Image: (C) New York Beat Films LLC

Editorial Yokota

Born in 1980, Kanagawa prefecture. Shibuya since he moved to Tokyo in the period in the university is a sacred place of culture. While now belong to the Shibuya culture project editing unit, is the straw sandals life of two feet to act as a caregiver.

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