Hard Romanticker

(2011)

★ 6 IMDb · 3 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2011

Runtime: 108 мин

Country: Japan

Director: 구수연

Cast: 松田翔太, 永山絢斗, Токио Эмото, 遠藤要, 渡部豪太, 川野直輝, 金子ノブアキ, Мотоки Отиаи, Юя Эндо, 裵ジョンミョン

Plot

Writer-director Gu Su-yeon's new film draws on his own semiautobiographical account of growing up as a delinquent zainichi Korean (Japanese-born, but of Korean ancestry) in the seaside city of Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture, a working-class hellhole overflowing with sex and fury. Day after day, (fictional) Gu finds fresh foes and makes the local hoodlums want to kick his ass. While working multiple dead-end part-time jobs, he cruises around town on his scooter in search of gangland trouble: leaping across rooftops with irate hordes of punks in hot pursuit, running off with a fetching belle in a sailor suit, rescuing a schoolgirl from being gang-raped at a glue-sniffing orgy…