Cruel Story of Youth

Between Mishima to Oshima

Archive - Festival 42

A significant moment in the take-up of European cinema's New Wave freedoms in Japan

Times Out
  • Archive - Festival 42
  • Director: Nagisa Oshima
  • Japan 1960
  • 96 minutes
  • Japanese
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

A scorching tale of toxic love in a toxic world, Nagisa Oshima’s second feature film marked the artistic breakthrough of one of the most radical voices in the history of Japanese cinema. 

Caught in the dog-eat-dog crucible of postwar Tokyo, teenage lovers Makoto (Miyuki Kuwano) and Kiyoshi (Yusuke Kawazu) turn to a life of crime, entrapping lecherous middle-aged men in order to extort money from them. But how long can these wayward youths outrun their fate?

Filmography: Taboo (1999), Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983), In the Realm of the Senses (1976), The Ceremony (1971).

 

This film is part of a special tribute titled "Between Mishima and Oshima"

 


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  • Director Nagisa Oshima
  • Production Tomio Ikeda
  • Script Nagisa Oshima
  • Cinematography Takashi Kawamata
  • Editing Keiichi Uraoka
  • Music Riichiro Manabe
  • Actors Yusuke Kawazu, Miyuki Kuwano, Yoshiko Kuga
  • Source CineStage

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