Cruel Story of Youth
Cruel Story of Youth

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Kiyoshi is a brooding young man who treats women solely as objects. Makoto is a young woman who is just reaching her sexual awakening. She and her friends accept car rides from middle-aged men, saying it's nothing more than fun and they have no intention of leading on those men. Kiyoshi and Makoto meet when he saves her from one of those middle-aged men trying to take advantage of her. Despite abusing each other, they start a relationship which leads to what they call love, b... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Cruel Story of Youth:

Yūsuke Kawazu
Miyuki Kuwano
Yoshiko Kuga
Fumio Watanabe
Shinji Tanaka
Yosuke Hayashi

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Kiyoshi is a brooding young man who treats women solely as objects. Makoto is a young woman who is just reaching her sexual awakening. She and her friends accept car rides from middle-aged men, saying it's nothing more than fun and they have no intention of leading on those men. Kiyoshi and Makoto meet when he saves her from one of those middle-aged men trying to take advantage of her. Despite abusing each other, they start a relationship which leads to what they call love, but feels more like an emotional dependence on each other to rebel against traditional society. Neither has money, so they start to extort money from these middle-aged men of hers. This is only one demonstration of the only power they feel they have: sex, which they use against others as well as each other in their doomed relationship.

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Ozus' World Movie Reviews - 8/10 by Dennis SchwartzAn anti-Ozu film that offers an embittered take on the moral disillusionment of youth in a changing postwar Japan.
Asian Movie Pulse - 6/10 by Panos KotzathanasisIn a prime sample of the Japanese New Wave that emerged in the late fifties in Japan, Oshima focuses, artfully, on adolescent delinquency, the sexual revolution, and the failures of the post-war generation, themes that were untouched up to that point.
The Skinny - 6/10 by Chris BuckleA cynical tale of wayward youth presented with a suitable degree of directorial maturity.
User Review - 8/10 by Jason JSex, crime ... and a shockingly violent ending.
User Review - 8/10 by Kevin KA very interesting Japanese classic. Emotionally daring and realisticly cruel.
User Review - 8/10 by Adam SOne of Oshima's most accessible films of the New Wave era, with beautiful wide-screen color photography, and a devastating portrait of post-war wanderlust and confusion in Japan's next generation.
User Review - 8/10 by Michael THighly gripping for a film about nothing.
User Review - 8/10 by Corey Skind of seems longer than it really is because the topics brought up and pacing is very old school, film noir almost (other than that it was shot in black & white). a very progressive movie of it's time, especially coming out of japan. obviously not the happiest movie out there, but it will click with some people off the starting blocks.
User Review - 8/10 by Khrysten RI happened to catch this during a TCM special for the early films of Asia, and thought that it was well done. It relays the twisted sexual depravity believed to be lived by the youth of Japan in the early 1960s and how they are doomed if they continue to act the way they do. Sure, the two main characters' relationship is twisted BEYOND belief, but the ending showed an possible outcome for them. I really enjoyed this simply because of its uniqueness.
User Review - 8/10 by Private UIn a way its your conventional youth-is-doomed movie, with the driftless young couple getting their just desserts in the end, but it's really a reflection on society and so on and so forth--but on the other hand it has a unique feel to it, not only because Oshima does a great job in telling the story, but because it doesn't really hold any punches. You can feel for the couple but still roll your eyes at how stupid they're being--in similar but lesser movies you spend a lot of time just doing the latter.

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