The Rockers (ザ・ロッカーズ, Rokkazu, stylized as TH eROCKERS) were a Japanese punk band formed in 1976 in Hakata, North Kyushu, a five-piece band which recorded three albums between 1980 and 1982 (Who, Come On, and Shakin) under Canyon Records.
[1] They belonged to the so-called Mentai Rock scene.
Their frontman, Takanori Jinnai, went on to have a two-decade acting career and winning Best Actor accolades at the Japanese Academy Awards on two occasions and became a film director in 2001.
In 2014 the band reformed for the memorial concert of former bassist Jun Hashimoto and started to play irregularly later on.
In 2018 Takanori Jinnai and a mostly new line-up started to work on new material and eventually they released a new album, Rock'n Roll in 2019.