If You Were Young: Rage

Japan

• 1970-05-27(JP)
• ▪

  Drama
• ▪ 1h-29m

no tagline

Overview

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 plan - 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.

• Kinji FukasakuDirector

  Kinji FukasakuWriter

  Koji MatsumotoWriter

  Takehiro NakajimaWriter

  Ai KennedyTranslator

  Tōtetsu HirakawaArt Direction