If You Were Young: Rage
1970 · 89 min · Drama
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.
- Director
- Kinji Fukasaku
- Writers
- Kinji Fukasaku, Koji Matsumoto, Takehiro Nakajima
- Released
- May 27, 1970
- Language
- Japanese
Cast
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