Toypunks (2008)
• May 27th, 2008 • 0h 43min
Documentary
Overview
Toypunks is a documentary film series covering the converging world of Japanese toys, fashion and punk rock. Exploring the birth of the designer vinyl explosion from its roots in character culture and punk music, Toypunks takes you in-depth with Japanese fashion icon, Hikaru Iwanaga, creator of the worlds first designer toy. Frank Kozik, Hiddy Kinoshita of Secret Base, Balzac, Three Tides Tattoo and more are interviewed highlighting profound cross-cultural connections between todays top creative talents in toys and fashion.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
James May's Top Toys
Released on: 2005-12-21
Documentary
James May presents a celebration of the toys which have survived across the decades, including Mecca...
Isamu Noguchi: Stones and Paper
Released on: 1997-06-25
Documentary, TV Movie
Isamu Noguchi was a sculptor, designer, architect, and craftsman. Throughout his life he struggled t...
GG Allin: Live at the Gas Station
Released on: 1993-06-27
Documentary
The following bonus footage is from June 27th, 1993 - GG Alin's last day on earth. It includes his f...
Cat Nation
Released on: 2017-07-20
Documentary
A journey into the unique, often bizarre, world of Japanese cat culture. Cat themed cafes, bars, tem...
Minor Threat - Live: DC Space-Buff Hall-930 Club
Released on: 2003-01-01
Music, Documentary
Minor Threat played one of its last shows at Washington DC's 930 Club in June of 1983; they would on...
Attack! The Battle for New Britain
Released on: 1944-06-20
War, Documentary
Actual footage by the United States Signal Corps of the landing and attack on Arawe Beach, Cape Glou...
Lady Samurai
Released on: 2019-05-29
Documentary, Action, Drama
This is the story of Kaori Kawabuchi, a samurai sword performer, singer and motion capture actor. An...
The Road to the Tokyo Olympics
Released on: 1963-02-08
Documentary
A documentary film that includes footage of past Olympics held in different countries with an partic...
The Go-Go's
Released on: 2021-03-08
Documentary, Music
As the first all-female band to play their instruments, write their songs and have a No. 1 album, Th...
American Hardcore
Released on: 2006-09-22
Documentary, Music
Inspired by Steven Blush's book "American Hardcore: A tribal history" Paul Rachman's feature documen...
On Putin's Blacklist
Released on: 2017-10-26
Documentary
Traces the new Cold War between Russia and the West from the ban on American citizens adopting Russi...
Dream Girls
Released on: 1994-08-17
Documentary
This film is about Japanese women, escape, glamour and dreams. The Takarazuka Revue is an enormously...
Baseball Punx
Released on: 2018-01-10
Documentary
A documentary exploring the sporadic connections between baseball and punk rock.
Last Room
Released on: 2011-07-06
Documentary
Made in Japan, Last Room is both fiction and documentary. The occupants of the love-hotels and capsu...
Here to be Heard: The Story of The Slits
Released on: 2018-04-18
Documentary, Music
The tale of the formation, journey and end of the seminal Punk/Reggae band The Slits.
Merge Records: 25 Years in 24 Minutes
Released on: 2014-08-12
Documentary, Music
Founded by Superchunk's Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance in 1989, North Carolina’s Merge Records qui...
Helvetica
Released on: 2007-09-12
Documentary
Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual cu...
Retratação
Released on: 2019-10-04
Documentary
Fernando Lemos, a Portuguese surrealist artist, fled from dictatorship to Brazil in 1952 searching f...
5 American Handguns - 5 American Kids
Released on: 1995-03-11
Documentary
When a child gets hold of a loaded handgun, someone often dies. Last year, 24,000 Americans lost the...
Michale Graves Live at Europa
Released on: 2013-10-31
Music, Documentary
A feature length concert film of the former frontman of the resurrected Misfits, Michale Graves at t...