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Cruel Story of Youth
Original Title
Seishun zankoku monogatari ...aka: Naked Youth- Director: Nagisa Ôshima
- Writer: Nagisa Ôshima
- Producer: Tomio Ikeda
CGiii Comment
Rebel Without a Cause - Japanese style.
Gritty with an abundance of girl-slapping.
It's dark, moody, sulky and dreadfully acted.
Early Oshima and a masterclass in over-direction.
Not for the light-hearted.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Kiyoshi is a brooding young man who treats women solely as objects. Makoto is a young woman who is just reaching her sexual awakening. She and her friends accept car rides from middle aged men, although they state it is nothing more than fun with no intention of leading those men on. Kiyoshi and Makoto meet when he saves her from one of those middle aged men who tries to take advantage of her. Despite treating each other abusively, they start a relationship with each other which leads to what they call love, but feels more like an emotional dependence on each other to rebel against traditional society. Each with no money, they start to extort money from these middle aged men who she leads on. This act is only one demonstration of the only power they feel they have, namely sex, which they use against others as well as against each other in their doomed relationship.
Cast & Characters
Yusuke Kawazu as Kiyoshi;
Miyuki Kuwano as Makoto;
Yoshiko Kuga as Yuki, Makoto's elder;
Fumio Watanabe as Akimoto, the doctor;
Shinji Tanaka as Yoshimi Ito, student;
Yosuke Hayashi;
Shinjiro Matsuzaki as Terada;
Toshiko Kobayashi as Teruko;
Jun Hamamura as Masahiro, Makoto's;
Shinko Ujiie as Masae Sakaguchi;
Aki Morishima as Yoko Ishikawa;
Yuki Tominaga as Toshiko Nishioka;
Kei Sato as Akira Matsuko;
Asao Sano as Inspector;
Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi as Keizo Horio