Death Powder - Shigeru Izumiya (1986)

Death Powder (Desu Powuda) is a 1986 science fiction/horror film written and directed by Japanese poet/folk singer Shigeru Izumiya. It is credited as being the first core film of the Japanese Cyberpunk sub-genre that emerged during the 1980s, predating both Katsuhiro Otomo’s anime film adaptation of Akira and Shinya Tsukamoto’s Tetsuo: The Iron Man.