Hard Romanticker
Overview
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…
Cast
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
