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Crazed Fruit (狂った果実, Kurutta kajitsu), also known as Juvenile Jungle, is a 1956 Japanese Sun Tribe film directed by Kō Nakahira. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Shintaro Ishihara , the older brother of cast member Yujiro Ishihara, [3] and is about two brothers who fall in love with the same woman and the resulting conflict.
Jun 27, 2005 · Imagining a New Japan—The. Taiyozoku. Films. By Michael Raine. Essays —. Jun 27, 2005. Y outh was a global problem problem in the mid-1950s, in literature, journalism, and film. The cultural old guard was in retreat from the likes of Françoise Sagan in France, J. D. Salinger in the United States, and the angry young men and Colin Wilson in ...
Crazed Fruit inaugurated an entire genre of Japanese cinema known as the "sun tribe" films, which focused on the newly Westernized postwar generation, often garbed in Hawaiian shirts and sunglasses. Its existence made possible the careers of, among others, Nagisa Oshima, whose 1960 breakthrough Cruel Story of Youth takes the themes of Crazed Fruit and explodes them into lurid Technicolor.
Aug 21, 2023 · Cited as a precursor of the Japanese New Wave, Kō Nakahira’s debut feature, Crazed Fruit, is an unsentimental drama marked by a youthful sense of rebellion against the traditional Japanese way of life. Insolent and narcissistic, the film’s subjects challenge the culture of their forebears, a culture that they find boring and clichéd.
Crazed Fruit. Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking, in this seminal Sun Tribe ( taiyozoku) film from director Kô Nakahira. Adapted from the controversial novel by Shintarô Ishihara, and critically savaged for its lurid portrayal of the postwar sexual revolution ...
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Drama, by Ko Nakahira, Japan, 1959. The sweet life of the rich young Japanese of the Sun Tribe subculture which was inspired by the western lifestyle in the late 1950s, between lust and violence, water skiing and speedboats. A story of love, passion and betrayal. Two brothers fall in love with the same girl, but she hides her real life.
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Jun 27, 2005 · Introduced with a blurt of bawdy sax and rubber-kneed slide guitar written by Akira Kurosawa regular Masaru Sato and internationally renowned classical composer Toru Takemitsu, Crazed Fruit is the story of Natsuhisa and Haruji, two brothers on a seaside summer vacation. Older and randier, Natsuhisa (played by Shintaro Ishihara’s younger brother Yujiro, whose bowlegs, big teeth, and naturally insolent manner made him an instant star) spends most of his time with a band of similarly boredom ...
