If You Were Young: Rage

Release Date: 1970-05-27

Overview: 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.

Rating: 5.556 / 10

Cast

Tetsuo Ishidate

as Kikuo Higuchi

Gin Maeda

as Asao Suzuki

Chōichirō Kawarasaki

as

Hideki Hayashi

as

Toru Minegishi

as Ryuji Kitano