Hard Romanticker (2011)

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Hard Romanticker on IMDb 5.8/10 111 votes

Released:
2011-11-12

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…

Director:
Su-yeon Gu

Runtime:
1h 48min

Genre:
Drama

  • Cast:
  • Shota Matsuda
    as
    Goo
  • Kento Nagayama
    as
    Tatsu
  • Tokio Emoto
    as
    Masaru
  • Kaname Endo
    as
    Pak
  • Gota Watabe