If You Were Young: Rage

If You Were Young: Rage highlights the other side of post-war Japanese prosperity, focusing on the throngs of young people who missed out on the boom. We follow a group of young men that can't seem to get ahead, despite their willingness to try. Then one hits upon a plan - to work together to save for a dump truck and thus become independent contractors and be their own bosses at last. Ultimately life presents obstacles: jail for one, violence at the hands of the police for another, and a girlfriend and subsequent children for the third. An early Kinji Fukasaku gem that imports the freewheeling style of the French New Wave and the hip detachment of American noir.

• Release date
• May 27, 1970
• Runtime
• 89 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Kinji Fukasaku

Cast

Tetsuo Ishidate Kikuo Higuchi Gin Maeda Asao Suzuki Chōichirō Kawarasaki

H

Hideki Hayashi Toru Minegishi Ryuji Kitano

M

Michie Terada Mayumi Ogawa Michiko Araki