Hard Romanticker
12/11/2011
2h

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…
Cast


Shota Matsuda
Goo


Kento Nagayama
Tatsu


Tokio Emoto
Masaru


Kaname Endo
Pak


Gota Watabe


Naoki Kawano
Kaneko


Nobuaki Kaneko


Motoki Ochiai


Yuya Endo
Kim


Jyonmyon Pe


Yuma Ishigaki


Keiko Awaji


Hakuryu


Claude Maki


Dai Watanabe


Ayaka Tomoda


Riri Kuribayashi


Yuriko Ono


Sei Ashina
Natsuko


Yoko Maki


Shido Nakamura
Takagi


Atsuro Watabe
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