Movielogr
Gate of Youth (1981)
Directed by Kinji Fukasaku, Koreyoshi Kurahara
Overview
The story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal miner. Ranging from Shinsuke’s infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly every aspect of his life. Shinsuke’s father a group leader at the mine, dies while bravely using dynamite to rescue a group of trapped Korean miners. Several older men attempt to help he and his mother cope, including a friendly Harley-riding yakuza boss. This movie has it all, drama, romance, sex, yakuza and violence! It is based on a story by Hiroyuki Itsuki that was originally serialized in the magazine Shukan Gendai in 1969-70.
Length 140 minutes
Actors
Bunta Sugawara | Keiko Matsuzaka | Koichi Sato | Kaoru Sugita | Hitomi Kageyama | Nenji Kobayashi | Taiko Shinbashi | Aoi Nakajima | Junichi Ishida | Takeshi Ôbayashi | Sakae Umezu | Kantarô Suga | Kikuo Kaneuchi | Masataka Iwao | Kazuo Katô | Shinji Kanai | Yoshiro Ichikawa | Saburo Tokito | Kôji Hio | Manabu Morita | Keijirō Shiga | Tsunehiko Watase | Otabe Michimaro | Masaji Arikawa | Sen Okaji | Isao Takanami | Satoru Nabe | Katsutoshi Akiyama | Masako Araki | Moeko Ezawa | Ryunosuke Kaneda | Mizuho Suzuki | Koji Tsuruta | Tomisaburo Wakayama