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No Music, No Dream.

Its been a while since i laughed soooooo hard.
Kebeen sitting next to me also laughed equally hard.


Just came home from watching Detroit Metal City (DMC).

Synopsis by Colin Geddes :

Souichi is a timid, sensitive and innately polite music geek who moves from the Japanese countryside to Tokyo with big dreams: he aspires to sing sugary love ballads and become a chart-topping sensation.

But life does not turn out the way Souichi had hoped, and the only gig he can get is that of front man for the notorious band Detroit Metal City (DMC). Wearing a cape, tights and ghostly demon makeup, Souichi storms the stage each night as Johannes Klauser II, smashing guitars and spewing verbal filth in songs about murder and rape. The band's crazy getups and destructive performances have earned them a legion of devoted, maniacal fans, who believe that Klauser is a drug-gobbling demon from hell.

To make matters worse, this reluctant rocker runs into his college crush, the demure and adorable Ms. Aikawa, who is now a magazine pop critic. Soon he is struggling to keep his wild metal stardom a secret. After defeating rival bands and winning recognition as one of Japan's top acts, DMC is challenged to a duel by death-metal icon Jack IL Dark (played to perfection by Gene Simmons of KISS). Souichi finds himself locked in a battle of satanic guitar riffs for the title of ultimate death-metal king, all while keeping Ms. Aikawa sweetly ignorant of his alter ego.
The film is pure madcap mayhem, and not so much a parody of metal bands as a comedy of manners based on Souichi's wild exploits as he tries to balance his two identities. In between Souichi's misadventures are piss-takes on fashionable J-pop trend followers, as well as send-ups of J-hip-hop and even J-riot grrrls.

This show is movie version of one of the hottest mangas in Japan- Detroit Metal City (DMC)


Detroit Metal City is based on Kiminori Wakasugi's hugely popular Japanese manga series of the same name. When the first collected works were published, the books quickly sold out and anyone left without a copy was labelled a “DMC refugee.”


Anyway Kenichi ( L, Death Note) rawks as Negishi/Johannes Klauser II.
He switches so well between the Timid Preppy Negishi to the Charmastic Klauser. Some of the slapstick moments in the show are classic too.


Not to mention Gene Simmons from KISS as the special guest star Jack IL Dark ( much to the delight of metal fans)

I am not joking when after the movie i needed my ventolin puff coz i am almost on the verge of ROTFL.

Though i cringe at the lyrics of the songs (death metal- all about death, rape, murder etcetc) but it is a wonderful movie telling us that, it cost nothing to dream!

And though sometimes your dream may seem hopeless but never give up and helping people grant their dreams will in turn make your dream come true.

Especially when your dreams will come true at the least likely of places.

I had a great time watching and if you don't think you will be offended by the profanites spoken in the movie then go catch it.

I am still smiling as i am typing this. The comic effect lasted so long on me! :)