Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
MovieTitle | 裸の十九才 |
User score | 6.9 |
Release date | Oct 31, 1970 |
Genre | Thriller |
Director | Kaneto Shindō |
Production country | Japan |
Production companies | Kindai Eiga Kyokai |
Run time | 120 min. |
Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department store as part of a government programme. He takes a gun from a house on an American base and uses it to kill several people. The scene changes to Yamada's childhood. Yamada is born the child of a reprobate and a weak-willed woman. As a boy Yamada, experiences poverty and the rape of his sister at first hand.