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…
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Su-yeon Gu
Director
Su-yeon Gu
Screenplay
Su-yeon Gu
Novel
Haruki Kadokawa
Executive Producer
Naoya Kinoshita
Executive Producer
Shigeyuki Endō
Executive Producer
Kimio Kataoka
Producer
Masahiro Harada
Producer
Hideyuki Mushû
Director of Photography
Kaoru Wada
Original Music Composer
Katsurô Watanabe
Editor
Kazuhisa Takahashi
Editor
