Fighting Elegy
Original title: けんかえれじい
7.0(39)19661h 26mJA
Directed by Seijun Suzuki
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.
Details
youth gangbased on memoir or autobiographysexual repressionroman catholic churchyoung lovemasculinitypianojapanese new wavestudentshōwa era (1926-89)violencethe roots of violence
