Popular Hits of the Showa Era

Popular Hits of the Showa Era is the story of surreal conflict between two groups of the marginalized in the Japan of the late '80s. It starts as the tale of a group of dissolute young men, who have taken to gathering together once a week for what might charitably called parties, at which they interact very little yet still feel some sense of camaraderie. A chance encounter on the streets leads to a conflict with another group of outcasts. These are six women in the thirties, all divorcees, who also experience life with some detachment. As the conflict escalates, both sides resort to ever more extreme tools of destruction. Greatest Hits is a fairly bizarre, darkly humorous tale of the marginalized finding some connection to life through rather extreme acts. Not for the faint hearted.