Synopsis

Hard Romanticker (2011)

Writer-director Gu Su-yeon’s new film draws on his own semiautobiographical account of growing up as a delinquent zainichi Korean (Japanese-born, but of Korean ancestry) in the seaside city of Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture, a working-class hellhole overflowing with sex and fury. Day after day, (fictional) Gu finds fresh foes and makes the local hoodlums want to kick his ass. While working multiple dead-end part-time jobs, he cruises around town on his scooter in search of gangland trouble: leaping across rooftops with irate hordes of punks in hot pursuit, running off with a fetching belle in a sailor suit, rescuing a schoolgirl from being gang-raped at a glue-sniffing orgy…
Su-yeon Gu
Shota Matsuda, Kento Nagayama, Tokio Emoto, Kaname Endô, Gota Watabe, Naoki Kawano, Nobuaki Kaneko, Motoki Ochiai, Yuya Endo, Jyonmyon Pe, Yuma Ishigaki, Keiko Awaji, Hakuryu, Claude Maki, Dai Watanabe, Ayaka Tomoda, Riri Kuribayashi, Yuriko Ono, Sei Ashina, Yoko Maki, Shidou Nakamura, Atsuro Watabe
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