Rent Boy (1969)

Name: Boy
Rating: 3.8

3.8 of 5 from 45 ratings

1h 37min

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A couple Takeo Omura (Fumio Watanabe) and Takeko Kaniguchi (Akiko Koyama) travel across Japan with their two sons, the eldest, Toshio (Tetsuo Abe), who is biologically his but not hers. They are con artists, whose scam is for her to jump alongside moving vehicles feigning being hit and injured, while he, playing the outraged husband, negotiates with the worried driver for an unofficial cash settlement in return for not calling the police reporting the motorist's "guilt". She often does sustain minor injuries from the ruse. She believes that they will continue doing this work until they have enough money to settle down in one place, where he will get a legitimate job.
However, he wants to continue the scam indefinitely as he, a veteran, claims that injuries he sustained during the war would prevent him from obtaining that legitimate work...
Actors:: Fumio Watanabe, Akiko Koyama, Tetsuo Abe, Tsuyoshi Kinoshita, LoLo Cannon, Do-yun Yu
Directors:: Nagisa Ôshima
Producers:: Masayuki Nakajima, Takuji Yamaguchi
Writers:: Tsutomu Tamura
Aka:: Shônen
Genres:: Classics, Drama
Countries:: Japan