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.
Kinji Fukasaku
Director, Writer
Koji Matsumoto
Writer
Takehiro Nakajima
Writer
Tetsuo Ishidate
Kikuo Higuchi
Gin Maeda
Asao Suzuki
Chōichirō Kawarasaki
Hideki Hayashi
Toru Minegishi
Ryuji Kitano
Michie Terada
Mayumi Ogawa
Michiko Araki
Toshiko Yabuki
Home67%
Five Minutes of Heaven61%
What Maisie Knew71%
The Girl in the Book58%
Rebel Without a Cause75%
楢山節考74%
Skin64%
TalhotBlond63%
Eleanor the Great69%
Fast Girls61%
The Words66%
All Together Now67%
Gigi & Nate76%
Adopt a Highway66%
Winged Creatures59%
The Parts You Lose66%
Starving in Suburbia65%
The Browning Version64%
The Good Lie74%
The Giver65%
