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Cruel Story of Youth
Directed by
Nagisa Ōshima
Not Rated
1960
1h 36m
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6.9
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A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class men.
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Cast of Cruel Story of Youth
Yūsuke Kawazu
Kiyoshi
Miyuki Kuwano
Makoto
Yoshiko Kuga
Yuki
Fumio Watanabe
Akimoto
Shinji Tanaka
Yoshimi Ito
Yosuke Hayashi
Toshiko Kobayashi
Teruko
Jun Hamamura
Masahiro
Yuki Tominaga
Toshiko Nishioka
Kei Satō
Akira Matsuko
Asao Sano
Inspector
Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi
Keizo Horio
Shinko Ujiie
Shinjiro Matsuzaki
Keiko Hori
Shunji Kasuga
Kyū Sazanka
Shin Morikawa
Hideo Kidokoro
Nagisa Ōshima
Director / Writer
Tomio Ikeda
Producer
Cruel Story of Youth Ratings & Reviews
Psychocinematography
Pieter-Jan Van Haecke
With his narrative, Oshima (prophetically) confronts us that the fact that what destroys idealism is nothing but a forced societal call to enjoy and to consume.
Asian Movie Pulse
Panos Kotzathanasis
In a prime sample of the Japanese New Wave that emerged in the late fifties in Japan, Oshima focuses, artfully, on adolescent delinquency, the sexual revolution, and the failures of the post-war generation, themes that were untouched up to that point.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
An anti-Ozu film that offers an embittered take on the moral disillusionment of youth in a changing postwar Japan.
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