A leading postwar Japanese film critic and theorist who co-founded the seminal film magazine Eiga Hihyo (Film Criticism) in 1957, Eizo Yamagiwa made his directorial debut with this independent feature—long thought lost until a negative was recently discovered—about a group of idle bourgeois students known as the “Roppongi Tribe” (Roppongi zoku). Depicting the resignation and nihilism of the postwar generation in the years following the Anpo Treaty conflicts through a coming-of-age narrative, Yamagiwa offers sharp criticism of the prevalent characterizations of Japan's new youth offered by Nikkatsu's taiyozoku (“Sun Tribe”) films and the New Wave at large.
Eizō Yamagiwa
Director
Kōji Matsubara
Kenji Nomura
Mitsuko Sawamura
Yuri
Terumi Hoshi
Michi Makino
Takashi Fujiki
Yoji Nakaoka
Yūko Kashiwagi
Akemi
Namiji Namiura
Noriko
Harue Tone
Michi's mother
Fumiko Miyata
Nurse
Masami Akimoto
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