If You Were Young: Rage

05/27/1970

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1hr 29min

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Drama

STORY

If You Were Young: Rage highlights the other side of post-war Japanese prosperity, focusing on the throngs of young people who missed out on the boom. We follow a group of young men that can't seem to get ahead, despite their willingness to try. Then one hits upon a plane - to work together to save for a dump truck and thus become independent contractors and be their own bosses at last. Ultimately life presents obstacles: jail for one, violence at the hands of the police for another and a girlfriend and subsequent children for the third. An early Kinji Fukasaku gem that imports the freewheeling style of the French New Wave and the hip detachment of American noir.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Tetsuo Ishidate
  • Gin Maeda
  • Chōichirō Kawarasaki
  • Hideki Hayashi
  • Toru Minegishi

    Director

  • Kinji Fukasaku

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Bungakuza
  • Shinsei Eigasha

    Production Countries

  • Japan

LANGUAGES

  • Japanese