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Roxie Cinema    2/9/2007    9:30PM

                            2/11/2007    12PM

World Premiere

 In today’s Tokyo you can find anything you can imagine—and at the same time get a new surprise on every corner. While most of Japanese society still preaches uniformity and order, there is an important underground world, where people lead a freer life. This is the Tokyo of “Rock N Tokyo.”

In Valente’s film we experience a succession of Japanese rock stories: The incredibly popular, leather-and-shades Guitar Wolf; some garage rock amongst the loudest ever heard; The 5678’s, rockabilly queens with a wild 50s elegance (recently introduced to the world in a memorable scene from Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill”); the Jet Boys, lead by an exhibitionist singer/guitar player; and Nine, young guys who’re playing in Shinjuku station as if it was the most important concert of their lives.