After previously looking at the precursors to the Japanese Cyberpunk genre, I thought it was about time that I looked at the first of the core films in the genre. Death Powder is probably one of the most incoherent of the Japanese Cyberpunk films. All that is really evident is how it allegorically inspects the notion of how technology is eroding at the fabric of human existence and sooner or later will eventually lead to the destruction of mankind. What’s most interesting about this film is that it is the first of the core films in the genre and from its almost suicidal ambiguity it has helped in the spawning of a plethora of movies based in and around the genre of Japanese Cyberpunk. Personally I feel that the movies existence is an attempt at answering the question that the android called Guernica in the movie asks (“Is there life without death?”). Seeing as the film now plays an integral part in the formation of the genre it is evident that even though it doesn’t really answer any of the philosophical questions it is asking the very fact that they are being asked projected a standard for each and every subsequential film.
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