Dir. Andreas Nilsson, Filip Nilsson / Japan, Sweden / 2009
A glimpse of Japanese Rockabilly subculture in this video for "Nothing to Worry About", the first single by Peter Bjorn and John from their album Living Thing, available from Wichita Recordings.
http://www.wichita-recordings.com/
The Band:
http://www.peterbjornandjohn.com/
http://www.myspace.com/peterbjornandjohn
The Directors:
http://www.nixonnoxin.com/
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With co-director Filip Nilsson, Andreas documented the meeting of an ageing gang of Japanese rockabilly fanatics called Black Shadow for the PB&J video focussing on Gin, their massively-pompadoured, somewhat terrifying leader.
There is a subculture in Tokyo where gangs dance to rockabilly music in this large park, explains commissioner Jill Kaplan. We collaborated with Black Shadow and another gang called Strangers for this video. Everything is real!
read more: http://www.promonews.tv/2009/02/23/st...
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