This is an in-depth examination of the intermedial relationship between Japanese cinema and punk culture, focusing on Japan’s ‘punk generation’ of filmmakers between the 1970s and 1980s. Drawing on rare materials and first-hand interviews with key figures from the jishu eiga (self-made film) tradition, including Ishii Gakuryu (formerly Ishii Sogo), Yamamoto Masashi, Tsukamoto Shin’ya, and Fukui Shozin, Player explores how punk’s bricolage style was leveraged to create exciting intermedial film aesthetics.