If You Were Young: Rage (1970)

  • NR
  • 05/27/1970 (JP)
  • Drama
  • 1h 29m

Overview

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.

Kinji Fukasaku

Director, Writer

Koji Matsumoto

Writer

Takehiro Nakajima

Writer

Cast

Tetsuo Ishidate's headshot

Tetsuo Ishidate

Kikuo Higuchi
Gin Maeda's headshot

Gin Maeda

Asao Suzuki
Chōichirō Kawarasaki's headshot

Chōichirō Kawarasaki

Hideki Hayashi's headshot

Hideki Hayashi

Toru Minegishi's headshot

Toru Minegishi

Ryuji Kitano
Michie Terada's headshot

Michie Terada

Mayumi Ogawa's headshot

Mayumi Ogawa

Michiko Araki's headshot

Michiko Araki

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