Cruel Story of Youth

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Cruel Story of Youth is a landmark 1960 Japanese New Wave film directed by Nagisa Ōshima that portrays rebellious postwar youth through a raw, socially critical love story.

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instanceOf Japanese New Wave film
film
ageRating adult themes
castMember Fumio Watanabe NERFINISHED
Miyuki Kuwano NERFINISHED
Yoshiko Kuga NERFINISHED
Yūsuke Kawazu NERFINISHED
cinematographyBy Takashi Kawamata NERFINISHED
colorProcess color
countryOfOrigin Japan
criticalReception considered a landmark of the Japanese New Wave
depicts delinquency
sexuality
violence
director Nagisa Ōshima NERFINISHED
distributor Shochiku NERFINISHED
editor Keiichi Uraoka NERFINISHED
filmingLocation Japan NERFINISHED
genre drama film
romantic drama film
hasSetting urban Japan
hasType feature film
leadActor Yūsuke Kawazu NERFINISHED
leadActress Miyuki Kuwano NERFINISHED
mainTheme rebellious youth
romantic relationship
social criticism
movement Japanese New Wave NERFINISHED
musicBy Riichirō Manabe NERFINISHED
narrativeFocus young couple engaged in crime and exploitation
notableFor early landmark in Nagisa Ōshima’s career
raw depiction of youth rebellion
socially critical narrative
originalLanguage Japanese
originalTitle 青春残酷物語 NERFINISHED
partOf Nagisa Ōshima filmography NERFINISHED
portrays postwar Japanese youth culture
producer Tomio Ikeda NERFINISHED
productionCompany Shochiku NERFINISHED
publicationDate 1960
releaseYear 1960
runtimeMinutes 96
screenwriter Nagisa Ōshima NERFINISHED
Toshirō Ishidō NERFINISHED
setInPeriod postwar Japan

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