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Hard Romanticker

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…

Release Date

November 12, 2011

Runtime

108 min

Rating

PG-13

Genres

Drama

Directed by

Su-yeon Gu

Screenplay by

Su-yeon Gu

Language

Japanese

Budget

$0

Revenue

$0

Status

Released
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Hard Romanticker di GU Su-yeon, Japan 2011, European Premiere