Film

Hard Romanticker

2011 · 1h 48m · Drama

IMDb

5.9

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…

Shota Matsuda

Goo

Kento Nagayama

Tatsu

Tokio Emoto

Masaru

Kaname Endo

Pak

Gota Watabe

Naoki Kawano

Kaneko

Nobuaki Kaneko

Motoki Ochiai

Yuya Endo

Kim

Jyonmyon Pe

Yuma Ishigaki

Keiko Awaji

Hakuryu

Claude Maki

Dai Watanabe

Ayaka Tomoda

• Su-yeon GuDirector · Novel · Screenplay
• Kimio KataokaProducer
• Masahiro HaradaProducer
• Naoya KinoshitaExecutive Producer
• Haruki KadokawaExecutive Producer
• Shigeyuki EndōExecutive Producer
• Hideyuki MushûDirector of Photography
• Kaoru WadaOriginal Music Composer
• Kazuhisa TakahashiEditor
• Katsurô WatanabeEditor

Hard Romanticker di GU Su-yeon, Japan 2011, European Premiere

Release date

November 12, 2011

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 48m

Rated

PG-13

Genres

Drama