A 62-minute fever dream of bikes, booze, and generational war—Nikkatsu's wild child!
A carefree student from a traditional sake shop family balances love, rebellion, and a bike race while clashing with gangsters and his old-fashioned grandfather.
Acting
Yōsuke Natsuki's smoldering rebel energy practically ignites the screen.
Direction
Nakamura crams a feature's worth of plot into 62 breathless minutes.
Director
Tsutomu Nakamura
Kumi Mizuno
Kimiko Mikawa, Yukichi’s Sister
Yōsuke Natsuki
Saburō
Tatsuyoshi Ehara
Toshio
Makoto Satō
Tadashi
Bokuzen Hidari
Kōbei, Yukichi’s Grandfather
Tamae Kiyokawa
Ofuku
Hajime Izu
Kenji
Machiko Kitagawa
Yukie
Shin Morikawa
Kōsuke, Yukichi’s Father
Michirō Minami
Gorō the Remnant
Kan Yanagiya
Zensuke
Senkichi Ōmura
Sukedon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is pure Nikkatsu 'mukokuseki' cinema—youth films stripped of wartime guilt, chasing American-style rebellion with Japanese family drama welded on. The studio pumped out dozens like it.
Kumi Mizono would become an Ishirō Honda regular (Mothra vs. Godzilla), making this her butterfly-before-the-kaiju era. Yōsuke Natsuki's rebel phase was short—he pivoted to stoic detectives within five years.
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