Film: Youth of the Beast (Yaju no seishun)
April 7, 2003 (Monday)
Film: Youth of the Beast (Yaju no seishun)
Director: Seijun Suzuki (1963, color, 92 min.)
Altschul Auditorium (417 International Affairs Building), Columbia University (118th St. and Amsterdam Ave.)
7:45 PM
| Soon after the apparent love-suicide of a cop and his mistress, the tough Mizuno…muscles his way to prominence in Yakuza circles. He gets himself hired by two rival gang bosses who hate each other as much as they hate the cops. But who is Mizuno really and what is his secret agenda? Suzuki films with a keen sense of absurdity, but also raises the genre’s visual rhetoric to a new high. |
| – Time Out Film Guide |
Part of “Exacting Revenge: A Series of Eight Japanese Films”
