Fighting Elegy
ComedyDrama
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.
VIBE
A raw, energetic burst of youthful rebellion and existential dread. It feels like a fever dream of societal decay and personal struggle, fueled by a restless, often violent, spirit.
nihilisticenergeticchaoticmelancholicfreneticjapanese new waveexperimentalgrittyanti-establishmentrebellionidentitydisillusionmentviolence
youth gangbased on memoir or autobiographysexual repressionroman catholic churchyoung lovemasculinitypianojapanese new wavestudentshōwa era (1926-89)violencethe roots of violence
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