A leading postwar Japanese film critic and theorist who co-founded the seminal film magazine Eiga Hihyo (Film Criticism) in 1957, Eizo Yamagiwa made his directorial debut with this independent feature—long thought lost until a negative was recently discovered—about a group of idle bourgeois students known as the “Roppongi Tribe” (Roppongi zoku). Depicting the resignation and nihilism of the postwar generation in the years following the Anpo Treaty conflicts through a coming-of-age narrative, Yamagiwa offers sharp criticism of the prevalent characterizations of Japan's new youth offered by Nikkatsu's taiyozoku (“Sun Tribe”) films and the New Wave at large.
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Stars: Kōji Matsubara, Mitsuko Sawamura, Terumi Hoshi, Takashi Fujiki, Yūko Kashiwagi, Namiji Namiura
Crew: Eizō Yamagiwa (Director), Akira Sagawa (Executive Producer), Masami Akimoto (Original Story), Kiminao Okada (Director of Photography), Hikaru Hayashi (Original Music Composer)
Country: Japan
Language: 日本語
Studio: Sagawa Production
Runtime: 78 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Nov 01, 1961
IMDb: 10
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