If You Were Young: Rage
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If You Were Young: Rage | |
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Directed by | Kinji Fukasaku |
Written by | Kinji Fukasaku Koji Matsumoto Takehiro Nakajima |
Produced by | Seishi Matsumaru Saburō Mutō Norio Sunoda |
Starring | Hiroki Matsukata Tomomi Sato Hideo Murota Akira Jo |
Cinematography | Takamoto Ezure |
Edited by | Keiichi Uraoka |
Music by | Taku Izumi |
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Release date | 1970 |
Running time | 89 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
If You Were Young: Rage (君が若者なら, Kimi ga wakamono nara) is a 1970 Japanese film financed, produced, directed and co-written by Kinji Fukasaku.[1] The film stars Tetsuo Ishidate and Gin Maeda as a pair of Tokyo day laborers who along with three other friends pool their money together to buy a dump truck, which they dub "Independence No. 1".[2] The film was, for a time, thought to be lost.[3]
References
- ^ Walkow, Marc (January–February 2016). "The History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Radical Anarchist: Gangster-Film Maestro and Champion of Underdogs Kinji Fukasaku Strove for a Ferocious Realism". Film Comment.
- ^ Lim, Dennis (April 13, 2004). "Film". The Village Voice.
- ^ Mes, Tom (January 22, 2003). "In Memoriam Kinji Fukasaku (1930 – 2003) K". Midnight Eye: Visions of Japanese Cinema.