A delinquent promises to go straight. Spoiler: he doesn't even curve.
A film about a juvenile delinquent who swears, yet fails, to rehabilitate.
Direction
Fujita's kinetic energy before he refined it.
Acting
Hirata's barely contained rage simmers then detonates.
Editing
Jagged cuts mirror the protagonist's fractured psyche.
Director
Toshiya Fujita
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Japan's 1960s taiyozoku ('sun tribe') delinquent cycle, this arrived as youth culture was politically radicalizing.
Fujita would later direct Lady Snowblood; this early work shows the same fascination with violence's seductive pointlessness.
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