Rent Youth of the Beast (1963)
3.7 of 5 from 66 ratings
1h 32min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- "Youth of the Beast" is a yakuza tale with a premise like Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo, whereby neither of two rival gangs can claim moral superiority over the other. The film stars Suzuki's iconic '60s regular Jo Shishido, with his dare-you-to-call-them-out artificial cheek implants like a new kind of screen-star blasphemy. There are drug-addled whores, gunfights in a toxin-hued apocalypse, and at least one alien landscape - a mind-searing eruption of sulphur yellow desert like an action-figure playset reeking of sex.
- Actors:
- Jô Shishido, Misako Watanabe, Tamio Kawaji, Minako Katsuki, Daizaburo Hirata, Eiji Gô, Koichi Uenoyama, Akiji Kobayashi, Yuzo Kiura, Naomi Hoshi, Hiroshi Kôno, Eimei Esumi, Shuntarô Tamamura, Mizuho Suzuki, Zenji Yamada, Yuriko Abe, Ikuko Kimuro, Shirô Yanase, Tomio Aoki, Ichirô Kijima
- Directors:
- Seijun Suzuki
- Producers:
- Keinosuke Kubo
- Writers:
- Ichirô Ikeda, Tadaaki Yamazaki
- Aka:
- Yajû no seishun
- Studio:
- Eureka
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Drama, Thrillers
- Collections:
- Cinema Paradiso's 2023 Centenary Club: Part 1, A Brief History of Film...
- Countries:
- Japan
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 27/10/2014
- Run Time:
- 92 minutes
- Languages:
- Japanese LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.35:1
- Colour:
- Colour and B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- New video interview with critic and scholar Tony Rayns
- Original Theatrical Trailer
