Young Thugs: Nostalgia (1998)

  • NR
  • 09/26/1998 (JP)
  • Drama, Action, Comedy
  • 1h 34m

Overview

Nostalgia is Takashi Miike’s favorite film of his considerable body of work. Including biographical elements, Nostalgia centers around the home and school of a young boy, whose family mix the violent and dysfunctional with the comic and the loveable. Though containing elements of the sudden and shocking brutality that many associate with this director, Young Thugs – Nostalgia is more concerned with a child’s moment of leaving the internalized world of fantasy, and passing on eagerly to the next stage of life. A wonderful, touching, startling vision that is uniquely Miike’s.

Takashi Miike

Director

Masaru Nakamura

Screenplay

Cast

Naoto Takenaka's headshot

Naoto Takenaka

Riichi's father
Yuki Nagata's headshot

Yuki Nagata

Riichi
Saki Takaoka's headshot

Saki Takaoka

Miss Itô
Toshikazu Nakaba's headshot

Toshikazu Nakaba

Akihiro Shimizu's headshot

Akihiro Shimizu

Nakamura
Yoshinori Yasuda's headshot

Yoshinori Yasuda

Sada
Setsuko Karasuma's headshot

Setsuko Karasuma

Riichi's mother
Takeshi Caesar's headshot

Takeshi Caesar

Riichi's uncle

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