The Gate of Youth

The Gate of Youth
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Directed by	Kinji Fukasaku, Koreyoshi Kurahara
Written by	Tatsuo Nogami
Music by	Hako Yamazaki
Cinematography	Toru Nakajima, Hanjiro Nakazawa
Release date(s)	1981
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

The Gate of Youth (青春の門, Seishun no mon^?) is a 1981 film directed by Kinji Fukasaku and Koreyoshi Kurahara.

It is based on a story by Hiroyuki Itsuki that was originally serialized in the magazine Shukan Gendai in 1969-70. The same story inspired a 1975 film, also titled Seishun no mon (青春の門^?), as well as three separate television productions in 1976-77 (TBS), 1991 (TV Tokyo), and 2005 (TBS).^[1]

Cast

Bunta Sugawara as Shigezo Ibuki
Keiko Matsuzaka as Tae Ibuki
Kōichi Satō as Shisuke Ibuki
Kaoru Sugita as Orie Maki
Tomisaburo Wakayama as Ryugoro Hanawa
Koji Tsuruta as Yabetora
Tsunehiko Watase as Kanayama
Junichi Ishida as Hirano
Ryunosuke Kaneda as Hanezawa
Kazuo Kato as Owner
Nenji Kobayashi as Chota
Aoi Nakajima as Kimiyo Hirai
Taeko Shinbashi as Masae Maki
Kantaro Suga as Ichimura
Saburô Tokitô as Haruo

References

^ TBS celebrates its 50th anniversary with a new version of "Seishun no Mon" and more. Japan Times, March 20, 2005. Accessed 06-03-2009.

External links

The Gate of Youth at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Kinji Fukasaku

1960s	Wandering Detective: Tragedy in Red Valley (1961) Wandering Detective: Black Wind in the Harbor (1961) Vigilante With a Funky Hat (1961) Vigilante With a Funky Hat: The 20,000,000 Yen Arm (1961) High Noon for Gangsters (1961) The Proud Challenge (1962) Gang vs. G-men (1962) League of Gangsters (1963) Jakoman and Tetsu (1964) Wolves, Pigs and People (1964) The Threat (1966) The Secret of the Diamond / The Kamikaze Guy (Kamikaze Man: Duel at Noon) (1966) Rampaging Dragon of the North (1966) Ceremony of Disbanding (1967) Gamblers' Ceremony of Disbanding (1968) Black Lizard (1968) Blackmail Is My Life (1968) The Green Slime (1968) Black Rose Mansion (1969) Japan's Most Violent Gangs: Boss (1969)

1970s	Bloodstained Clan Honor (1970) If You Were Young: Rage (1970) Tora! Tora! Tora! (with Richard Fleischer and Toshio Masuda) (1970) Sympathy for the Underdog (1971) Under the Flag of the Rising Sun (1972) Street Mobster (1972) Outlaw Killer: Three Maddog Killers (1972) Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973) Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Hiroshima Deathmatch (1973) Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War (1973) Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics (1974) Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode (1974) New Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1974) Graveyard of Honor (1975) State Police vs. Organized Crime (1975) Gambling Den Heist (1975) New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Boss's Head (1975) Violent Panic: The Big Crash (1976) New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Boss's Last Days (1976) Yakuza Graveyard (1976) Hokuriku Proxy War (1977) Doberman Detective (1977) Shogun's Samurai (1978) Message from Space (1978) The Fall of Ako Castle (1978)

1980s	Virus (1980) The Gate of Youth (1981) Samurai Reincarnation (1981) Dotonbori River (1982) Fall Guy (1982) Theater of Life (1983) Legend of the Eight Samurai (1983) Shanghai Rhapsody (1984) House on Fire (1986) Sure Death 4: Revenge (1987) A Chaos of Flowers (1988)

1990s	The Triple Cross (1992) Crest of Betrayal (1994) The Geisha House (1999)

2000s	Battle Royale (2000) Battle Royale II: Requiem (with Kenta Fukasaku) (2003)

Films directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara

I Am Waiting (1957) Fūsoku 40 metres (1958) Arashi no naka o tsuppashire (1958) The Warped Ones (1960) The Gate of Youth (1981) Nankyoku Monogatari (1983) Haru no kane (1985) Hiroshima (1995)