If You Were Young: Rage

If You Were Young: Rage (君が若者なら Kimi ga wakamono nara) is a 1970 Japanese film financed, produced, directed and co-written by Kinji Fukasaku.[1] The film stars Tetsuo Ishidate and Gin Maeda as a pair of Tokyo day laborers who along with three other friends pool their money together to buy a dump truck, which they dub "Independence No. 1".[2] The film was, for a time, thought lost.[3]

References

  1. Walkow, Marc (January–February 2016). "The History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Radical Anarchist: Gangster-Film Maestro and Champion of Underdogs Kinji Fukasaku Strove for a Ferocious Realism". Film Comment.
  2. Lim, Dennis (April 13, 2004). "Film". The Village Voice.
  3. Mes, Tom (January 22, 2003). "In Memoriam Kinji Fukasaku (1930 – 2003) K". Midnight Eye: Visions of Japanese Cinema.
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