Movies: Sun Tribe
A controversial Japanese "micro-genre" of the 1950s & 60s. Most I've seen, but not all. Known as "taiyozoku" in Japan.
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- DirectorKô NakahiraStarsYûjirô IshiharaMasahiko TsugawaMie KitaharaSpending their summer on an exotic beach, two brothers fall for the same beautiful girl, whose charm and looks may hide more than they they bargained for.
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsKayoko HonooKôji NakaharaMasahiko TsugawaIn Osaka's slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the trading of ID cards and blood.
- DirectorKon IchikawaStarsHiroshi KawaguchiKeizô KawasakiSeiji MiyaguchiNothing less than a phenomenal, astonishing and pioneering film. This spectacle of an angry, ego-driven youth tormented by his own emotional impotence, low self-esteem and resentment towards his parents.
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsMiyuki KuwanoYûsuke KawazuYoshiko KugaA harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class men.
- DirectorSeijun SuzukiStarsTamio KawajiYoshiko NezuSayuri YoshinagaThe young rebel Jiro has to deal with an environment of crime and prostitution, and the impact of its choices on personal relationships: one with his mother, with the lover of the latter and with a girl in love with him.
- DirectorTakumi FurukawaStarsYôko MinamidaHiroyuki NagatoKô MishimaThe story of a group of high school boxing team members who spend their days drinking, sailing and chasing girls, and who more often than not spend their nights getting into brawls. In particular, it focuses upon Tatsuya, a sullen young man, who falls in love with Eiko, a proud upper-class girl.
- DirectorKoreyoshi KuraharaStarsTamio KawajiYuko ChiyoEiji GôA juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and causes reckless mayhem, mostly directed at the girlfriend of the journalist who helped send him up.aka: Season of Heat
- DirectorMasahiro ShinodaStarsShin'ichirô MikamiShima IwashitaKayoko HonooAn alienated young man flirts with extremism during a major student protest.
- DirectorToshio MasudaStarsTomio AokiIzumi AshikawaRyôji HayamaA group of five college students decide to jinx a bicycle race in their favor and claim the money to pay off their debts, but when the illegal bookie cannot pay, they take up his offer of "collateral" as revenge and complexities begin to unravel and ruin their scheme.
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsIchirô ArakiKazuko TajimaJûzô ItamiFour high school students preparing for their university entrance exam fantasize about a classmate, and meet up with their inebriated teacher, while singing bawdy drinking songs.
- DirectorKeisuke KinoshitaStarsAkira IshihamaKatsuo NakamuraSadako SawamuraA young man ignores his mother's pleas and becomes drawn to a life of crime.
- DirectorKô NakahiraStarsJenny HuHan ChinFan YangTwo brothers lust after the same girl in the summer scene of 60's.
- DirectorKô NakahiraStarsYûjirô IshiharaIzumi AshikawaJun HamamuraAsada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko. Motoko is a famous hair dresser, who openly flaunts her lover. When Kokichi and Motoko fight, which they do a lot, he routinely threatens to leave but never quite does. A relationship develops between Saburo and Keiko, but Saburo is shaken when his mother tells Keiko the truth about Saburo's past and the secret of his birth.
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsMasaaki DaimonKeiko TakahashiAkemi NegishiA young girl meet a young guy that want to be a gangster. They fall in love and you follows his minds struggle what to do.
- DirectorSeijun SuzukiStarsSachiko HidariAkira KobayashiRuriko AsaokaNobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past.