Film

If You Were Young: Rage

1970 · 1h 29m · Drama

IMDb

6.8

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.

Tetsuo Ishidate

Kikuo Higuchi

Gin Maeda

Asao Suzuki

Chōichirō Kawarasaki

Hideki Hayashi

Toru Minegishi

Ryuji Kitano

Michie Terada

Mayumi Ogawa

Michiko Araki

Toshiko Yabuki

Kiwako Taichi

Yumiko Fujita

Sanae Nakahara

Jitsuko Yoshimura

Hideo Murota

• Kinji FukasakuDirector · Writer
• Koji MatsumotoWriter
• Takehiro NakajimaWriter
• Seishi MatsumaruExecutive Producer
• Norio SonodaExecutive Producer
• Saburo MutoExecutive Producer
• Takamoto EzureDirector of Photography
• Taku IzumiOriginal Music Composer

Release date

May 27, 1970

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 29m

Rated

15

Genres

Drama