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Negishi Soichiro is a music obsessed teenager who makes the jump from his rural hometown to the big city of Tokyo. His goal is to become a successful musician, but not the typical J-pop star: Negishi has a love for indie twee pop, a kind of music popular in the trendier areas of Tokyo like Shibuya. Unfortunately for Negishi, he fails miserably in gaining any type of following for his music. One day, he spots a flier for a music agency looking to recruit musicians. With his home-burned CD in hand, he enters the music agency's office. Fast forward a few more months and Negishi is now the front man for an up-and-coming band. Unfortunately for him, the band is an ultra-heavy death metal band that sings about Satanism, rape, and murder. Negishi is absolutely miserable performing this type of music, but his fear of his abusive female manager keeps him in the band. Meanwhile, Negishi runs across his old college sweatheart, Aikawa Yuri. Aikawa shares Negishi's love for twee pop and works for a hip magazine as a music columnist. Negishi is too embarrassed to tell Aikawa what type of music he now plays. Can Negishi gain the affection of Aikawa without her discovering the truth behind his day time gig? Complicating matters even more, the infamous death metal artist known as Jack is set to retire, but first sets out on a farewell world tour. Negishi's band "Death Metal City" then gets thrust into a death metal challenge with Jack for the adoration of all Japanese music fans. Edit Translation

  • English
  • Русский
  • Čeština
  • Polski
  • Country: Japan
  • Type: Movie
  • Release Date: Aug 23, 2008
  • Duration: 1 hr. 44 min.
  • Score: 7.6 (scored by 1,352 users)
  • Ranked: #5365
  • Popularity: #4992
  • Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

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Bonny
9 people found this review helpful
May 20, 2012
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Overall 10
Story 10
Acting/Cast 10
Music 9.0
Rewatch Value 7.0
One word: HILARIOUS

This is about a guy who leaves home to study music at a university. His ambition is to one day produce indie pop songs to the world. There's just a small problem.

He takes a job part-time as a lead singer of a metal band. Although it's only a temporary job... or so he thought.

It jumps a few years later and he's still in the band but now it's becomed a extremely popular underground metal band. He produces music for the band but clearly this isn't what he wants.

The band rises up worldwide becoming the next number 1 heavy metal band and in the end, they have a duel against a former heavy metal artist, Jack.

This is absolutely funny, couldn't stop laughing throughout the whole movie. A must watch if you're looking for some comedy.

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phantom_mom
8 people found this review helpful
Jun 21, 2012
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Overall 7.0
Story 7.0
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 3.0
This wasn't a bad movie at all though it wasn't my type. Though it was a comedy there was a lot of violence vocalized and a lot of vulgarity in the songs but at the same time I was enjoying the music and movie was pretty good. Matsuyama Kenichi played Krauser so well, he was totally awesome in Krauser form but his nerdy form was just to much, the way he ran and walked omg. It was actually funny in some spots though I never broke out laughing I did smile most of the movie. Matsuyama is a very talented person to be able to play these dual characters so well and Krauser was funny and cool when dealing with his brother and the parents were so funny. Though this wasn't my typical kind of movie I like it, however I wouldn't suggest it to anyone easily offended.

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  • Movie: Detroit Metal City
  • Country: Japan
  • Release Date: Aug 23, 2008
  • Duration: 1 hr. 44 min.
  • Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

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  • Score: 7.6 (scored by 1,352 users)
  • Ranked: #5365
  • Popularity: #4992
  • Watchers: 2,191

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