In 1978, the Sex Pistols rip through the radio and into Yuichi Jibiki’s provincial life. The young photographer chases the loudness all the way to Tokyo, and soon falls in with the fast-forming punk underground coalescing around S-Ken Studio in Roppongi, the scene that will become the Tokyo Rockers. He starts shooting bands no one's ever heard of, becoming the movement's camera guy and de facto manager. Amid sweatbox clubs, busted gear, and groups inventing themselves in public, his lens catches music history before anyone else does. Adapted from Jibiki's memoir, Street Kingdom restages the birth of a wild DIY culture that still echoes today; scored by Yoshihide Otomo, scripted by Kankuro Kudo (_Too Young to Die!, _NYAFF 2016), directed by Tomorowo Taguchi (Iden & Tity), this is punk cinema by the fans, for the fans.