Fighting Elegy
Kenka erejii, Fighting Elegy, feature film, 1966.
DIRECTED BY: Seijun Suzuki
CAST:
Hideki Takahashi (Kiroku Nanbu),
Yûsuke Kawazu (Suppon
SCRIPT:
Kaneto Shindô (prema romanu Takashija Suzukija)
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Kenji Hagiwara
Synopsis:
Kiroku Nanbu is a high school student in the 1930’s. He lives in rural Japan with a catholic family and falls in love with their daughter, Michiko. Unused to showing his emotions and also dealing with puberty, he becomes violent. He joins a local gang and slowly rises in its ranks while abandoning school and Michiko.
35 mm, b/w, 86 min