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.
Genre: Drama
Stars: Tetsuo Ishidate, Gin Maeda, Chōichirō Kawarasaki, Hideki Hayashi, Toru Minegishi, Michie Terada
Crew: Tōtetsu Hirakawa (Art Direction), Takehiro Nakajima (Writer), Ai Kennedy (Translator), Koji Matsumoto (Writer), Kinji Fukasaku (Director), Kinji Fukasaku (Writer)
Country: Japan
Language: 日本語
Studio: Bungakuza, Shinsei Eigasha
Runtime: 89 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: May 27, 1970
IMDb: 5
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