Name: THE LEGEND OF THE STARDUST BROTHERS (1985)! – Encore of the Cult Sensation!
Start: 2024-06-22T19:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-06-22T21:00:00-07:00
Location: Philosophical Research Society

THE LEGEND OF THE STARDUST BROTHERS (1985)! – Encore of the Cult Sensation!

The Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles is a nonprofit cultural and educational organization which presents concerts, film screenings, lectures, performance art and theatre events, gallery exhibits and more on the intersection between the creative arts and mythology, mysticism and metaphysics.

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Back by popular demand! Join us for the gleefully bonkers soon-to-be cult classic THE LEGEND OF THE STARDUST BROTHERS!!

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<blockquote>Calling all lovers of the weird and wonderful! On the last two Saturdays of June we are presenting two brilliantly bonkers cinematic marvels— the outrageous &amp; gleeful The Legend of the Stardust Brothers (1985) on 6/22 and the uproariously bats**t The Visitor (1979) the following weekend on 6/29. Both are can’t miss, riotous viewing with a crowd in a theater and, because we don’t want you to miss either one, we’re offering a ticket bundle for these two gonzo gems! Just purchase a ticket to one and you’ll receive a discount code for the other!</blockquote> You asked, we answered! Back by popular demand, it’s the soon-to-be cult classic THE LEGEND OF THE STARDUST BROTHERS! Our last screening was the most fun we’ve had in a movie theater in a long time – let’s do it again! A wild, jubilant, Japanese synth pop musical that plays like a live action anime crossed with A Hard Day’s Night meets The Young Ones by way of Buckaroo Banzai x The Phantom of the Paradise + The Rocky Horror Picture Show – it’s safe to say that there’s no other film quite like THE LEGEND OF THE STARDUST BROTHERS! A cult hit in Japan, this rediscovered, brilliantly bonkers oddity has finally made its way West – and The Philosophical Research Society is excited to beam it into your brains! In 1985, Macoto Tezuka/Tezka (son of the great manga artist and Astro Boy creator Osamu Tezuka) met musician and TV personality Haruo Chicada who had made a soundtrack to a movie which didn’t actually exist. At the time Macoto was just 22 years old, a film-student with many short experimental films under his belt, but bore the weight of the Tezuka name (he often dropped the “U” in an effort to separate himself from his father’s legacy and forge his own path) and had yet to make his feature debut. With Chicada as producer, Tezka set out to adapt this “fake soundtrack” into a real-life motion picture: THE LEGEND OF THE STARDUST BROTHERS! The story follows a shady music mogul (Kyoko Togaway), who brings together two musical rivals, spiky punk rocker Kan (Kan Takagi) and narcissistic new wave crooner Shingo (Shingo Kubota) to form the Stardust Brothers—a silver-jumpsuited, synth-pop sensation who rocket to superstardom. What follows might be your standard music industry saga (the joy of success, the temptations of stardom, love and jealousy, a fall from grace, the triumphant return)...if it didn’t play as though it was made by MTV-era extraterrestrials who filled each frame with one WTF moment after another! With direct inspiration from Phantom of the Paradise (the film is even dedicated to its titular phantom, Winslow Leach!) and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Tezka assembled a cast of some of Japan’s most famous musicians of the time, including such greats as Kiyohiko Ozaki, ISSAY, Sunplaza Nakano and Hiroshi Takano, alongside many famous names in Manga such as Monkey Punch (Lupin the 3rd), Shinji Nagashima (Night on the Galactic Railroad), Yosuke Takahashi (Mugen Shinshi) and even many upcoming film directors of the time such as Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Tokyo Sonata) and Daihachi Yoshida (The Kirishima Thing). Delightfully campy, manically over the top, and brimming with catchy musical numbers, goofy slapstick comedy, wild costumes, fanciful sets, kinetic cinematography, psychedelic animation, fantastic special effects (including creepy monster makeup and stop motion creatures), and nods to everything from Grease to “Thriller” to the French New Wave – this is a cuckoo banana-pants wild ride that will keep you guessing where the heck it’s going next and is an absolute blast to watch with a crowd! If you missed this the first time around, do NOT miss it this time! And if you joined us last time, we’re sure you’ll want to see it again! Join us as we strap in for THE LEGEND OF THE STARDUST BROTHERS – with an eye-popping restoration of Tezka/Tezuka’s director’s cut! Special thanks to Bret Berg of The American Genre Film Archive Dir. Makoto Tezuka, 1985, 1h 40m, Unrated, Japanese w/ English Subtitles, Digital. <h3>Tickets: $10 (In Person Only)</h3> Please email events@prs.org or phone 323-663-2167 with any questions.

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