Last year¡¯s release of ¡°Blade Runner 2049¡± and this year¡¯s Netflix series ¡°Altered Carbon¡± have rekindled interest in the futuristic cyberpunk aesthetic, though those works were decidedly more ¡°cyber¡± and less ¡°punk.¡±
Punk is meant to be raw, gritty ¡ª easily identifiable as do-it-yourself. The polished sheen with which ¡°Blade Runner 2049¡± was presented was visually stunning, but there¡¯s something rebellious in imperfection.
Cyberpunk took on a somewhat different form in Japan with more body horror elements, and much of it was influenced by filmmaker Gakuryu Ishii, who until 2010 was known as Sogo Ishii.
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