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Hard Romanticker

6.0

2011•1h 48m

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…

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Cast

Photo of Shota Matsuda

Shota Matsuda

Goo

Photo of Kento Nagayama

Kento Nagayama

Tatsu

Photo of Tokio Emoto

Tokio Emoto

Masaru

Photo of Kaname Endo

Kaname Endo

Pak

Photo of Gota Watabe

Gota Watabe

Photo of Naoki Kawano

Naoki Kawano

Kaneko

Photo of Nobuaki Kaneko

Nobuaki Kaneko

Photo of Motoki Ochiai

Motoki Ochiai

Photo of Yuya Endo

Yuya Endo

Kim

Photo of Jyonmyon Pe

Jyonmyon Pe

Photo of Yuma Ishigaki

Yuma Ishigaki

Photo of Keiko Awaji

Keiko Awaji

Photo of Claude Maki

Claude Maki

Photo of Dai Watanabe

Dai Watanabe

Photo of Ayaka Tomoda

Ayaka Tomoda

Photo of Riri Kuribayashi

Riri Kuribayashi

Photo of Yuriko Ono

Yuriko Ono

Photo of Sei Ashina

Sei Ashina

Natsuko

Photo of Yoko Maki

Yoko Maki

Photo of Shido Nakamura

Shido Nakamura

Takagi

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Reviews

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BiankaMalburg

4/10

It was technically a movie and Gu is definitely an asshole and a loser.

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