Street Kingdom
New York Asian Film Festival 2026
July 10 - 23
The Sex Pistols hit, Tokyo calls, and a countryside photographer finds himself inside Japan’s punk explosion. Tomorowo Taguchi and writer Kankuro Kudo resurrect the Tokyo Rockers as scrappy DIY legends.
Showtimes
Mon, July 20
In 1978, the Sex Pistols rip through the radio and into Yuichi Jibiki’s provincial life. The young photographer chases the loudness all the way to Tokyo, and soon falls in with the fast-forming punk underground coalescing around S-Ken Studio in Roppongi, the scene that will become the Tokyo Rockers. He starts shooting bands no one has ever heard of, becoming the movement’s camera guy and de facto manager. Amid sweatbox clubs, busted gear, and groups inventing themselves in public, his lens catches music history before anyone else does. Adapted from Jibiki’s memoir and scripted by Kankuro Kudo (Too Young to Die!, NYAFF 2016), Street Kingdom restages the birth of a wild DIY culture that still echoes today. With a score by Yoshihide Otomo, Tomorowo Taguchi’s (Iden & Tity) latest is punk cinema by the fans, for the fans.
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