"If You Were Young: Rage"
1970
Directed by Kinji Fukasaku

Kinji Fukasaku (The Yakuza Papers) examines teenage life in post-WWII Japan in this riveting story of five kids who leave their small provincial towns to work in Tokyo. With his trademark kinetic energy, he follows the trails of broken dreams that form as the idealistic youths succumb to the chaos of their ever-expanding culture and lives. "One of Fukasaku's grittiest and most hard-hitting" (American Cinematheque). Japanese with English subtitles. 89 minutes.