Post by Aj_June on Nov 1, 2018 10:26:45 GMT
Yasuzu Masumura’s debut feature is a coming a age drama about two restless youths who meet when visiting their respective parents in jail, they both need the 100,000 yen to bail them out.
Sharing the same themes and spirit of similar Japanese “youth” films of the time like Crazed Fruit, The Warped Ones and Good For Nothing, as well as the French New Wave films like The 400 Blows and Breathless.
Stylistically though Masumura eschews hand held camerawork and jump cuts in favour of precise elegant framing and dark expressionistic shadows.
A solid first entry in what would be a long and prolific career.