If You Were Young: Rage (movie)
君が若者なら- User score: 6
- Production country: Japan
- Producer: Kinji Fukasaku
- Production companies: Bungakuza, Shinsei Eigasha
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 5/27/1970
- Run time: 89 min.
Movie description
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.
