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野獣の青春 Youth of the Beast
This is a 1963 Nikkatsu yakuza movie, dir. by Suzuki Seijun. I've watched tons of Japanese melodramas for work, and lately i've been going through Ozu films, so this was a breath of fresh air. Instead of people hemmed in by social relations, here you have the lone wolf generating chaos in the Tokyo underworld. This was a big 1960s theme. Generally crappy acting and pro-wrestling type choreographed "violence", but visually inventive, especially with colour. A real pleasure to watch.
An acquaintance from my diss research days was on the DVD doing the interview with Suzuki.
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