The End of Love

The End of Love (1961)

A leading postwar Japanese film critic and theorist who co-founded the seminal film magazine Eiga Hihyo (Film Criticism) in 1957, Eizo Yamagiwa made his directorial debut with this independent feature—long thought lost until a negative was recently discovered—about a group of idle bourgeois students known as the “Roppongi Tribe” (Roppongi zoku). Depicting the resignation and nihilism of the postwar generation in the years following the Anpo Treaty conflicts through a coming-of-age narrative, Yamagiwa offers sharp criticism of the prevalent characterizations of Japan's new youth offered by Nikkatsu's taiyozoku (“Sun Tribe”) films and the New Wave at large.

Director: Eizō Yamagiwa

Casts

	Kōji Matsubara as Kenji Nomura
	Mitsuko Sawamura as Yuri
	Terumi Hoshi as Michi Makino
	Takashi Fujiki as Yoji Nakaoka
	Yūko Kashiwagi as Akemi
	Namiji Namiura as Noriko
	Harue Tone as Michi's mother
	Fumiko Miyata as Nurse
	Masami Akimoto as Akiko
	Akira Nakamura as Michi's father
	Yoji Naruto as
	Hiroshi Inoue as Singer
	Akemi Nara as Makiko Kawamura
	Yūji Hori as

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