Go to Hell, Hoodlums!

Go to Hell, Hoodlums!
Directed by	Seijun Suzuki
Produced by	Eisei Koi
Written by	Gan Yamazaki; Kenzaburo Hara (novel)
Starring	Koji Wada; Chikako Hosokawa; Emiko Azuma; Mayumi Shimizu
Music by	Seitaro Omori
Cinematography	Kazue Nagatsuka
Distributed by	Nikkatsu
Release date	November 23, 1960
Running time	80 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Go to Hell, Hoodlums! (くたばれ愚連隊, Kutabare gurentai, aka Fighting Delinquents) is a 1960 Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki for the Nikkatsu Corporation. It is Suzuki's first color film.

Cast

Koji Wada as Sadao Matsudaira
Chikako Hosokawa as Ikuyo Matsudaira, his grandmother
Emiko Azuma as Yuki Maebara
Mayumi Shimizu as Kazuko Izeki
Kaku Takashina as Sanshiro Izeki, Kazuko's father
Eitaro Ozawa as Kanjuro Mizoguchi, Sadao's uncle
Hiroshi Kondo as Nanjo
Toppa Utsumi as Uchiyama
Saburo Hiromatsu as Kodaira

Plot

Sadao, a young construction worker, believes himself to be an orphan and in spite of his youthful tempestuousness he is nonetheless a model of honesty and moral integrity: he introduces himself by crashing into the office of a company president in order to claim the indemnity that he owes the foreman's daughter because he caused the man's death by dangerous driving.

Shortly after this altercation, Sadao learns that he actually is the only heir of a noble and rich family from Awaji Island. A messenger tries to convince him by all means to accept the inheritance, but Sadao's moral integrity prevents him from leaving his friends and he refuses to accept this sudden ticket to fortune and high society. When the messenger realizes that the young man is immune to the material temptations such an offer carries, he manages to persuade him with the promise that he will be reunited with his mother.

Pressured by his buddies' enthusiasm, Sadao gives in and leaves for Awaji, where he is welcomed by his aristocratic grandmother. The obaasan ("granny", as he defiantly calls her) is shocked by her grandson's disarming sincerity, a far cry from the hypocritical manners inherent in any high society member. When Sadao finds out that the promise to join his mother was just a trick to attract him to the island, he devotes all his efforts to finding her himself. At the same time spends the family fortune on building a public park and a western-style youth hostel on lands owned by the family. However, he is unaware that a shady speculator has plans to appropriate these lands, and that the businessman's girlfriend is none other than Sadao's mother.

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External links

Japan Foundation notes at Cinefiles
Go to Hell, Hoodlums! on IMDb
Go to Hell, Hoodlums! at AllMovie
Go to Hell, Hoodlums! (in Japanese) at the Japanese Movie Database

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