Cruel Story of Youth
A scorching tale of toxic love in a toxic world, Nagisa Oshima’s second feature film marked the artistic breakthrough of one of the most radical voices in the history of Japanese cinema. Caught in the dog-eat-dog crucible of postwar Tokyo, teenage lovers Makoto (Miyuki Kuwano) and Kiyoshi (Yusuke Kawazu) turn to a life of crime, entrapping lecherous middle-aged men in order to extort their money. But how long can the wayward youths outrun their fate? Bursting with vivid color, this visually scintillating, furiously nihilistic film howls with rage at a society in which everything—love, sex, and youthful idealism—has been corrupted.
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- A Town of Love and Hope (1959), director Nagisa Oshima’s first feature film
- Tomorrow’s Sun (1959), a short film by Oshima
- Interview with film scholar Tony Rayns
- Trailer
- PLUS: An essay by critic Chris Fujiwara
New cover by Mariam El-Reweny
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- A Town of Love and Hope (1959), director Nagisa Oshima’s first feature film
- Tomorrow’s Sun (1959), a short film by Oshima
- Interview with film scholar Tony Rayns
- Trailer
- PLUS: An essay by critic Chris Fujiwara
New cover by Mariam El-Reweny
Cast
- Yusuke Kawazu
- Kiyoshi Fujii
- Miyuki Kuwano
- Makoto Shinjo
- Yoshiko Kuga
- Yuki, Makoto’s elder sister
- Fumio Watanabe
- Akimoto
- Shinji Tanaka
- Yoshimi Ito, student
- Shinjiro Matsuzaki
- Terada
- Toshiko Kobayashi
- Teruko Shimonishi
Credits
- Director
- Nagisa Oshima
- Written by
- Nagisa Oshima
- Producer
- Tomio Ikeda
- Director of photography
- Takashi Kawamata
- Production design by
- Koji Uno
- Music by
- Riichiro Manabe
- Sound by
- Shujuro Kurita
- Lighting by
- Isamu Sato
- Edited by
- Keiichi Uraoka
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A scene from Cruel Story of Youth
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