If You Were Young: Rage 1970
6/10 by 8 users
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.
- Released: 1970-05-27
- Runtime: 89 minutes
- Genre: Drama
- Stars: Tetsuo Ishidate, Gin Maeda, Chōichirō Kawarasaki, Hideki Hayashi, Toru Minegishi
- Director: Takehiro Nakajima, Kinji Fukasaku, Ai Kennedy, Koji Matsumoto, Tōtetsu Hirakawa
