God Speed You! Black Emperor

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{{Infobox film

| name = God Speed You! Black Emperor

| image = God Speed You!.jpg

| caption = DVD cover

| director = Mitsuo Yanagimachi

| producer = Mitsuo Yanagimachi

| writer =

| narrator =

| starring =

| music =

| cinematography = Taro Akashi
Katsutoshi Iwanaga
Makoto Sugiura
Kimio Tsukamoto
Yoshibumi Yokoyama

| editing = Tomoyo Ōshima, Eiko Yoshida

| distributor = Toei Company

| released = {{Film date|1976}}

| runtime = 90 minutes

| country = Japan

| language = Japanese

| budget =

}}

{{Nihongo|God Speed You! Black Emperor|ゴッド・スピード・ユー! Black Emperor}} is a 1976 Japanese black-and-white 16 mm documentary film by director Mitsuo Yanagimachi that follows the exploits of young Japanese motorcyclists known as the "Black Emperors".{{IMDb title|id=0261555|title=God Speed You! Black Emperor}}

The 1970s in Japan saw the rise of a motorcycling movement called the bōsōzoku, which drew the interest of the media. The movie follows a member of the "Black Emperors" motorcycle club and his interaction with his parents after he gets in trouble with the police.

The Canadian post-rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor named themselves after the film.{{cite interview|last=Bryant|first=David|authorlink=David Bryant (musician)|url=http://www.brainwashed.com/godspeed/wire.html|title=Back from infinity|work=The Wire|date=September 1998|issue=175|interviewer=David Keenan|via=brainwashed.com|access-date=2023-10-04|archive-date=2015-04-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150417150659/http://www.brainwashed.com/godspeed/wire.html|url-status=live}}