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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…

2011 |1h 48m |  Drama

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Cast

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Shota Matsuda

Goo

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Kento Nagayama

Tatsu

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Tokio Emoto

Masaru

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Kaname Endo

Pak

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Gota Watabe

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Naoki Kawano

Kaneko

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Nobuaki Kaneko

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Motoki Ochiai

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Yuya Endo

Kim

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Jyonmyon Pe

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Yuma Ishigaki

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Keiko Awaji

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Hakuryu

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Claude Maki

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Dai Watanabe

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Ayaka Tomoda

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Riri Kuribayashi

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Yuriko Ono

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Sei Ashina

Natsuko

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Yoko Maki

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Shido Nakamura

Takagi

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Atsuro Watabe

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Status

Released

Language

Japanese

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