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…
Editing | Kazuhisa Takahashi | Editor |
Editing | Katsurô Watanabe | Editor |
Sound | Kaoru Wada | Original Music Composer |
Writing | Su-yeon Gu | Novel |
Directing | Su-yeon Gu | Director |
Production | Naoya Kinoshita | Executive Producer |
Production | Haruki Kadokawa | Executive Producer |
Lighting | Kazuhiro Iwashita | Lighting Technician |
Production | Masahiro Harada | Producer |
Writing | Su-yeon Gu | Screenplay |
Camera | Hideyuki Mushû | Director of Photography |
Sound | Shinsuke Nagashima | Sound Recordist |
Production | Shigeyuki Endō | Executive Producer |
Production | Kimio Kataoka | Producer |
Production | Naruhiko Yanagisako | Associate Producer |
Art | Toshiharu Nakamae | Art Direction |