Naked Youth details
| Format: | 15 DVD |
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| Starring: | Yusuke Kawazu, Miyuki Kuwano, Yoshiko Kuga, Fumio Watanabe, Shinji Tanaka, Yosuke Hayashi, Shinjiro Matsuzaki, Toshiko Kobayashi, Jun Hamamura, Shinko Ujiie, Aki Morishima, Yuki Tominaga, Kei Sato, Asao Sano, Kan Nihonyanagi |
| Director: | Nagisa Oshima |
| Genres: | Drama - Comedy, General, World Cinema - Japanese |
| Studio: | YUME PICTURES |
| Name | Discs | |
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Naked Youth |
15 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 36 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 25 Feb 2008 |
| Main languages: | Japanese |
| Subtitles: | English |
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Actually a revolutionary and little known film
By TBomb (9 reviews) from London , 01 Aug 2008[Highly rated reviewer]
The synopsis given above is not in fact for this film at all, but an American film of the same name released in 1961. This film by Nagisa Oshima was in fact made in 1960, and is both an enjoyable and historically important work. The tale of the troubled relationship between an Angry Young Man and a teenage schoolgirl, this is in many ways the Japanese answer to US youth movies such as 1955's Rebel Without a Cause and the more socially complex views of young lives offered by contemporaneous British films such as Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and This Sporting Life.
With stunning cinematography and design aestheticising an overwhelmingly brutal vision, Oshima's film was refused a certificate in the UK on its release, and it's not hard to see why. This dark film about the corruption of sexual relationships, the hidden violence implicit in coupling, and the doomed fate of romantic love itself, is unlike its US counterparts in its depiction of and its refusal to glamorise rebellious teenage love. Yet it also refuses to deliver a reactionary view, and the adults too are embittered, disillusioned and powerless against the disappointments of their various sexual and romantic lives.
Still at times shocking today (certainly to this viewer), this is a brave film very much ahead of its time. It's a film I'll be returning to...- Was this review helpful to you?
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(2)Actually a revolutionary and little known film
By TBomb (9 reviews) from London , 01 Aug 2008The synopsis given above is not in fact for this film at all, but an American film of the same name released in 1961. This film by Nagisa Oshima was in fact made in 1960, and is both an enjoyable and historically important work. The tale of the troubled relationship between an Angry Young Man and a teenage schoolgirl, this is in many ways the Japanese answer to US youth movies such as 1955's Rebel Without a Cause and the more socially complex views of young lives offered by contemporaneous British films such as Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and This Sporting Life.
With stunning cinematography and design aestheticising an overwhelmingly brutal vision, Oshima's film was refused a certificate in the UK on its release, and it's not hard to see why. This dark film about the corruption of sexual relationships, the hidden violence implicit in coupling, and the doomed fate of romantic love itself, is unlike its US counterparts in its depiction of and its refusal to glamorise rebellious teenage love. Yet it also refuses to deliver a reactionary view, and the adults too are embittered, disillusioned and powerless against the disappointments of their various sexual and romantic lives.
Still at times shocking today (certainly to this viewer), this is a brave film very much ahead of its time. It's a film I'll be returning to...- Was this review helpful to you?
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Thrilling exploitation film
By goldgreen (7 reviews) from New Malden , 28 Jun 2008Lashings of sex (most of it implied), violence, cheap thrills, stupid life decisions and general sleaziness. This tale of a doomed relationship between a petty crook and a dim high school girl explores the seedy side of life in early 60s Tokyo. Oshima is clearly out to shock and thrill the more prurient majority of Japanese with this film. I expect it must have been the biggest hit of the year.- Was this review helpful to you?
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