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 to be lost.[3]

If You Were Young: Rage
Directed byKinji Fukasaku
Produced bySeishi Matsumaru
Saburō Mutō
Norio Sunoda
Written byKinji Fukasaku
Koji Matsumoto
Takehiro Nakajima
StarringTetsuo Ishidate
Gin Maeda
Music byTaku Izumi
CinematographyTakamoto Ezure
Edited byKeiichi Uraoka
Production
company
Bungakuza
Shinsei Eigasha
Release date
May 27, 1970
Running time
89 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Cast

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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