Cruel Story of Youth
RomanceDramaCrimesocietyyakuzadriftermotorcyclejuvenile delinquentpost war japanabortionjapanese new wave
A morally corrosive portrait of two drifters in post-war Japan whose toxic romance becomes a vehicle for petty crime and social transgression.
A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitchhiking to rob middle-class men.
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