1963 · crime · action · noir
Youth of the Beast
Directed by Seijun Suzuki1h 32m1963
When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.
Our read: Youth of the Beast (1963) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive crime · action · noir entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, kinetic, measured crime / action, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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