Hard Romanticker
2011 · ★ 7 · Dir. Su-yeon Gu
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…
- Released
- 2011-11-12
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Language
- JA
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Kaname Endô
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Motoki Ochiai
Yuya Endo
Kim
Jyonmyon Pe
Yuma Ishigaki
Keiko Awaji
