1960 · drama · crime · japanese
Cruel Story of Youth
Directed by Nagisa Ōshima1h 37m1960
A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitchhiking to rob middle-class men.
Our read: Cruel Story of Youth (1960) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded drama · crime · japanese entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, kinetic, measured drama / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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