Fighting Elegy

  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Action
11/9/1966
86

Storyline

Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually, becomes involved with the radical Kita Ikki group.

Director:
Seijun Suzuki
Writer:
Kaneto Shindō
  • youth gang
  • based on memoir or autobiography
  • sexual repression
  • roman catholic church
  • young love
  • masculinity
  • piano
  • japanese new wave
  • student
  • shōwa era (1926-89)
  • violence
  • the roots of violence

Cast

  • Hideki Takahashi
    Kiroku Nanbu
  • Yūsuke Kawazu
    Suppon "Turtle"
  • Takeshi Katō
    Acting
  • Isao Tamagawa
    Principal
  • Kayo Matsuo
    Acting
  • Junko Asano
    Michiko
  • Keiichi Ishikawa
    Acting
  • Akira Takahashi
    Acting
  • Chikako Miyagi
    Yoshino Nanbu
  • Jun Hamamura
    Acting
  • Asao Sano
    Acting
  • Kensuke Akashi
    Acting
  • Iwae Arai
    Acting
  • Hiroyuki Atami
    Acting
  • Hiroshi Chiyoda
    Acting
  • Hiroshi Chō
    Acting

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