Hard Romanticker

11/12/2011

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1hr 48min

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Drama

STORY

Writer-director Gu Su-yeon's new film draws on his own semiautobiographical account of growing up as a delinquent zainichi Korean (Japanese-born, but of Korean ancestry) in the seaside city of Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture, a working-class hellhole overflowing with sex and fury. Day after day, (fictional) Gu finds fresh foes and makes the local hoodlums want to kick his ass. While working multiple dead-end part-time jobs, he cruises around town on his scooter in search of gangland trouble: leaping across rooftops with irate hordes of punks in hot pursuit, running off with a fetching belle in a sailor suit, rescuing a schoolgirl from being gang-raped at a glue-sniffing orgy…

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Shota Matsuda
  • Kento Nagayama
  • Tokio Emoto
  • Kaname Endo
  • Gota Watabe

    Director

  • Su-yeon Gu

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

    Production Countries

  • Japan

LANGUAGES

  • Japanese

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