Garage Rockin' Craze (2017) is a documentary by Mario Cuzic about the garage rock scene in Tokyo. It was a scene that I followed in grad school in Bellingham, Washington by attending Garage Shock-a yearly garage festival hosted by Estrus Records and The Mono Men. bands from all over the US and abroad would come and play. This included garage rock royalty from Tokyo: Guitar Wolf, Jacky & the Cedarics, the 5,6,7,8's, Teengenerate, and Supersnazz. All these bands are briefly mentioned in the documentary. But the scene focuses on a local promoter Daddy-O-Nov and his Back From the Grave events. I also went to the pre-view concert at Club U.F.O. in Higashi Nakano the Friday night before the opening and saw several of the bands in the film perform live. I enjoyed both the the concert and the film and wish I had stayed connected to the scene more, when I was on JET in Koshigaya in the late 1990s I usd go see some shows by the earlier mentioned bands.
Review of Garage Rockin' Craze
