Youth of the Beast
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Directed by | Seijun Suzuki |
Produced by | Keinosuke Kubo |
Written by |
Ichirō Ikeda Tadāki Yamazaki Haruhiko Oyabu (Novel) |
Starring | Joe Shishido |
Music by | Hajime Okumura |
Cinematography | Kazue Nagatsuka |
Distributed by | Nikkatsu |
Release dates |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Youth of the Beast (野獣の青春 Yajū no seishun, aka Wild Youth) is a 1963 Japanese yakuza film directed by Seijun Suzuki. Much of the film is set in Tokyo.
Cast
- Joe Shishido - Joji 'Jo' Mizuno
- Misako Watanabe - Kumiko Takeshita
- Tamio Kawaji - Hideo Nomoto
- Minako Katsuki
- Daizaburo Hirata
- Eiji Gō - Shigeru Takechi
- Koichi Uenoyama
- Akiji Kobayashi - Nomoto Tatsuo
- Yuzo Kiura - Minegishi Takeo
- Naomi Hoshi
- Hiroshi Kono - Honma
- Eimei Esumi - Goro Minami
- Shuntaro Tamamura
- Mizuho Suzuki
- Seijun Suzuki - Detective Hirokawa
External links
- Criterion Collection essay by Howard Hampton
- Youth of the Beast at the Internet Movie Database
- Youth of the Beast at AllMovie
- Youth of the Beast (Japanese) at the Japanese Movie Database