The Rockers (ザ・ロッカーズ, Rokkazu, stylized as TH eROCKERS) were a Japanese punk band formed in 1976 in Hakata, North Kyushu, a five-piece band which recorded three albums between 1980 and 1982 (''Who'', ''Come On'', and ''Shakin'') under
Canyon Records
Canyon Records of Phoenix, Arizona is a record label that has produced and distributed Native American music for 56 years.
History
Canyon was founded in 1951 by Ray and Mary Boley, who had opened the first recording studio in Phoenix, Arizona ...
.
"Rockers"
''Midnight Eye''. They belonged to the so-called Mentai Rock
is the name given to the collection of Japanese artists who gained national popularity during the late 1970s. Continuing through the early 1980s, the collective had little in common other than their origin - the Hakata ward of Fukuoka City. The ...
scene.
Their frontman, Takanori Jinnai
is a Japanese actor, film director, and singer. He was born August 12, 1958 in Okawa, Fukuoka. He made his directorial debut with '' Rockers'' (ロッカーズ or ''Rokkazu''), a 2003 film based on his years as vocalist for the punk rock band T ...
, went on to have a two-decade acting career and winning Best Actor accolades at the Japanese Academy Awards on two occasions and became a film director in 2001.
They were featured in the film Rockers (2003 film)
is a 2003 Japanese comedy drama directed by Takanori Jinnai. It is a fictional account of real-life Japanese rock band, The Rockers.
Cast
* Yumi Asō
* Ryūnosuke Kamiki
* Katsuya Kobayashi
* Hiroko Isayama
* Toru Kazama
* Yutaka Matsushige
* ...
by directed by Takanori Jinnai which recorded of the spirit and energy of the early Japanese punk movement, the band splitting up soon after filming was completed. In 2014 the band reformed for the memorial concert of former bassist Jun Hashimoto and started to play irregularly later on. In 2018 Takanori Jinnai and a mostly new line-up started to work on new material and eventually they released a new album, ''Rock'n Roll'' in 2019.
Members
* Takanori Jinnai
* Ko-chan (Takashi Tsukamoto
is a Japanese actor, singer, and model.
He has released three single CDs: "Itsudemo Boku wa" (いつでも僕は, Anytime I am...), "Hitorigoto" (ヒ・ト・リ・ゴ・ト, Soliloquy), "New Morning".
He also portrayed the character Shinji Mi ...
)
* Jin (Shunsuke Nakamura
is a Japanese former professional footballer. He is the only person to have been named J.League Most Valuable Player more than once, receiving the award in 2000 and 2013. Steve Perryman once remarked that Nakamura "could open a tin of beans w ...
)
* Tani (Hiroshi Tamaki
is a Japanese actor, singer, and model from Nagoya, Japan. When he was still in high school, he was discovered by a talent agent while out shopping with friends. He made his debut in the drama ''Am I Weird?'' (私ってへん？ ''Watashitte Hen ...
)
Films
* Rockers
* Burst City
is a Japanese dystopian punk rock musical / action film. Released in 1982, the film was directed by Gakuryū Ishii. Primarily a showcase for various specific punk rock bands of the time such as The Roosters, The Rockers, and The Stalin, the fil ...
(1982) by Sogo Ishii
* アイデン & ティティ (2004) by Tomorowo Taguchi
is a Japanese actor, film director and musician.
After leaving Dokkyo University without graduating, he started to earn his living as an illustrator, writer and pornographic cartoonist. He joined a theatre called Hakken no Kai in 1978 and he ma ...
(田口トモロヲ)
References
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Japanese punk rock groups
Pony Canyon artists
Musical groups from Fukuoka Prefecture