Hard Romanticker (2011)

  • PG-13
  • 11/12/2011 (US)
  • Drama
  • 1h 48m

Overview

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…

Su-yeon Gu

Director, Novel, Screenplay

Cast

Shota Matsuda's headshot

Shota Matsuda

Goo
Kento Nagayama's headshot

Kento Nagayama

Tatsu
Tokio Emoto's headshot

Tokio Emoto

Masaru
Kaname Endo's headshot

Kaname Endo

Pak
Gota Watabe's headshot

Gota Watabe

Naoki Kawano's headshot

Naoki Kawano

Kaneko
Nobuaki Kaneko's headshot

Nobuaki Kaneko

Motoki Ochiai's headshot

Motoki Ochiai

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