Rokudenashi - Yoshishige (Kijû) Yoshida (1960)
Rokudenashi - Yoshishige (Kijû) Yoshida (1960)
aka: "Good-for-Nothing" - "Bon à rien"
DVDRIP | 84 min | MKV-x264 720x304 | 25 fps | AC3 256 kb/s | 1.08 GB
Language: Japanese | Subtitles: English - French in 2 optional srt files | Genre: Drama
aka: "Good-for-Nothing" - "Bon à rien"
DVDRIP | 84 min | MKV-x264 720x304 | 25 fps | AC3 256 kb/s | 1.08 GB
Language: Japanese | Subtitles: English - French in 2 optional srt files | Genre: Drama
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida
Writer: Yoshishige Yoshida
Japan - 1960 - b&w
Cast: Hizuru Takachiho, Masahiko Tsugawa, Yûsuke Kawazu, Kakuko Chino, Junichiro Yamashita, Masao Mishima, Isao Sasaki, Shôji Yasui
In this Yoshida's first feature, the story is centered on a group of young men whose lives are spent pretty much in emptiness and boredom. Jun is a teenager from a poor family with few prospects and no clear idea of what to do with his life. Jun falls in with a band of troublemakers who commit petty crime, listen to loud music, play pranks on strangers and kill time by the ocean. Toshio, the leader of the gang, is the son of a successful businessman, and partly out of boredom and partly in hopes of making a big score, he decides they should aim their criminal ambitions higher. Toshio and his friends try their hands at kidnapping, abducting a woman named Makino who works as a secretary for Toshio's father. Makino senses that Jun is more principled than his compatriots and a bond forms between them, but the kidnapping scheme seems to go wrong from the very start.
Yoshishige Yoshida (aka Kiju Yoshida), one of the major filmmakers of the Japanese New Wave, made his directorial debut with this drama of lost and aimless youth. "Good for Nothing" was strongly influenced by the French New Wave and Yoshida demonstrates his talent for lighting and composition.
Rokudenashi - Yoshishige (Kijû) Yoshida (1960)
Rokudenashi - Yoshishige (Kijû) Yoshida (1960)
Rokudenashi - Yoshishige (Kijû) Yoshida (1960)
Rokudenashi - Yoshishige (Kijû) Yoshida (1960)
Rokudenashi - Yoshishige (Kijû) Yoshida (1960)
