Released:
1961-11-01

Overview:
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.

Director:
Eizō Yamagiwa

Runtime:
1h 18min

Genre:

• Cast:
• 
  Kōji Matsubara
  as
  Kenji Nomura
• 
  Mitsuko Sawamura
  as
  Yuri
• 
  Terumi Hoshi
  as
  Michi Makino
• 
  Takashi Fujiki
  as
  Yoji Nakaoka
• 
  Yūko Kashiwagi
  as
  Akemi