Overview

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…

Genres

Cast

Shota Matsuda

Goo

Kento Nagayama

Tatsu

Tokio Emoto

Masaru

Kaname Endo

Pak

Gota Watabe

Naoki Kawano

Kaneko

Nobuaki Kaneko

Motoki Ochiai

Yuya Endo

Kim

Jyonmyon Pe

Yuma Ishigaki

Keiko Awaji