A farmer's son crashes into high society and ruins everything beautifully.
Story of rebellious youth follows the 19-year-old son of a Hokkaido farmer who has an affair with the daughter of a wealthy trading company president.
Acting
Natsuki's simmering resentment masks deep fragility.
Direction
Fukuda's tight 78 minutes wastes nothing.
Director
Jun Fukuda
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Post-war Japanese cinema obsessed with 'taiyozoku' (sun tribe) youth — privileged rebels without politics, drowning in ennui. Fukuda strips the glamour bare.
Fukuda would later direct Godzilla films; this early noir shows the same economy of destruction, just emotional instead of atomic.
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