Yajû no seishun
(La juventud de la bestia / Youth of the Beast / The Brute /
La jeunesse de la bête / La giovinezza di una belva umana )
(Japón, 1963) [B&W-Color, 92 m.].
Género: Thriller, Cine negro, Acción, Drama criminal / Gangster Film, Mafia, Yakuza.
IMDb
Ficha técnica.
Dirección: Seijun Suzuki.
Argumento: Haruhiko Oyabu (novela).
Guión: Ichirô Ikeda, Tadaaki Yamazaki.
Fotografía: Kazue Nagatsuka (B&W-Color).
Música: Hajime Okumura.
Producción: Keinosuke Kubo, Yoshio Muto.
Productora: Nikkatsu Film Company / Nikkatsu.
Reparto: Jo Shishido (Joji 'Jo' Mizuno), Ichiro Kijima (Detective Takeshita Koichi - Jo's former partner), Misako Watanabe (Kumiko Takeshita), Seijun Suzuki (Detective Hirokawa), Akiji Kobayashi (Nomoto Tatsuo), Tamio Kawaji (Hideo Nomoto), Eimei Esumi (Goro Minami), Nobuo Kaneko (Ozawa Soichi), Shiro Yanase (Ishizaki Ken), Hiroshi Kono (Honma), Kinzo Shin (Shinsuke Onodera), Eiji Go (Shigeru Takechi), Yuzo Kiura (Minegishi Takeo), Go Kuroda (Morikawa Tokio), Tomio Aoki (Matsui Terumi), Masao Shimizu (Ishiyama Yosuke), Kosuke Hisamatsu (Detective Yamada), Hiroshi Takao (Nomura), Yuriko Abe, Kensuke Akashi, Yasuo Itoga, Minako Kozuki, Gen Mihama, Ikuko Kimuro (uncredited).
Sinopsis: Cuando un misterioso extraño se mete por medio de dos grupos yakuza rivales, la violencia explota en los bajos fondos de Tokyo. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Joji Mizuno es un tipo duro nuevo en la ciudad que comienza a relacionarse con un grupo de cínicos y rapados matones y con diferentes chicas go-go que bailan embutidas en minifaldas de cuero. Rápidamente querrá marcar su estilo dentro de dos bandas rivales de yakuzas. (Culturalia)

IMDb. Joe Shishido plays a tough guy with a secret agenda. His violent behavior comes to the attention of a yakuza boss who immediately recruits him. He soon tries to make a deal with a rival gang a starts a gang war. His real motivations are gradually revealed as we find out how this all ties in with the murder of a policeman shown at the beginning of the film.
AMG SYNOPSIS: Youth of the Beast marked a turning point in director Seijun Suzuki's career. No longer content to just crank out production-line gangster films, here Suzuki starts to assert his own voice. The plot is fairly typical for the genre: chipmunk-cheeked Jo Shishido stars as ex-cop Jo Mizuno, who muscles his way into the shadowy world of the yakuza. He gets hired by the clan that killed his former partner while double-dealing with the clan's rival. Yet the plot contains some particularly Suzuki-like details. Why is Jo's partner more interested in guns than in women? Why does Hide, the notorious gay gangster, always slash the face of anyone who mentions his mother? What does this all have to do with the Takeshita School of Knitting? Suzuki's audacious style heightens the absurdity and artifice of both the genre and the medium with pop-art colors, loopy camera placements, and bizarre, dream-like images: A feather-clad dancer silently struts behind sound-proofed two-way mirrors, a pink dust storm serendipitously occurs while a pimp whips a junkie prostitute. The film is a dizzying visual feast whose tone Seijun Suzuki would amplify to the most absurd heights in his later films, Tokyo Drifter (1966) and Branded to Kill (1967). -- Jonathan Crow
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Indice de directores:
Seijun Suzuki.
Saludos.