If You Were Young: Rage

If You Were Young: Rage (1970)

Drama

If You Were Young: Rage highlights the other side of post-war Japanese prosperity, focusing on the throngs of young people who missed out on the boom. We follow a group of young men that can't seem to get ahead, despite their willingness to try. Then one hits upon a plan - to work together to save for a dump truck and thus become independent contractors and be their own bosses at last. Ultimately life presents obstacles: jail for one, violence at the hands of the police for another, and a girlfriend and subsequent children for the third. An early Kinji Fukasaku gem that imports the freewheeling style of the French New Wave and the hip detachment of American noir.

Director: Kinji Fukasaku

Casts

	Tetsuo Ishidate as Kikuo Higuchi
	Gin Maeda as Asao Suzuki
	Chōichirō Kawarasaki as
	Hideki Hayashi as
	Toru Minegishi as Ryuji Kitano
	Michie Terada as
	Mayumi Ogawa as
	Michiko Araki as
	Toshiko Yabuki as
	Kiwako Taichi as
	Yumiko Fujita as
	Sanae Nakahara as
	Jitsuko Yoshimura as
	Hideo Murota as

Crew