Writer-director Gu Su-yeon's new film draws on his own semiautobiographical account of growing up as a delinquent zainichi Korean (Japanese-born, but of Korean ancestry) in the seaside city of Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture, a working-class hellhole overflowing with sex and fury. Day after day, (fictional) Gu finds fresh foes and makes the local hoodlums want to kick his ass. While working multiple dead-end part-time jobs, he cruises around town on his scooter in search of gangland trouble: leaping across rooftops with irate hordes of punks in hot pursuit, running off with a fetching belle in a sailor suit, rescuing a schoolgirl from being gang-raped at a glue-sniffing orgy…
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Hard Romanticker Cast
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Character |
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Claude Maki
He was 39, now 51 years old
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Atsuro Watabe
He was 43, now 55 years old
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Shidou Nakamura
He was 39, now 51 years old
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as Takagi |
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Nobuaki Kaneko
He was 30, now 42 years old
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Kento Nagayama
He was 22, now 35 years old
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as Tatsu |
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Sei Ashina
She was 28, now 40 years old
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as Natsuko |
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Hakuryu
He was 59, now 71 years old
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Yuya Endo
He was 24, now 37 years old
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as Kim |
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Tokio Emoto
He was 22, now 34 years old
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as Masaru |
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Yoko Maki
She was 29, now 41 years old
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Shota Matsuda
He was 26, now 38 years old
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as Goo |
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Naoki Kawano
He was 29, now 42 years old
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as Kaneko |
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Keiko Awaji
She was 78, 80 years old when she died
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Yuma Ishigaki
He was 29, now 41 years old
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Gota Watabe
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Jyonmyon Pe
He was 26, now 39 years old
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Motoki Ochiai
He was 21, now 33 years old
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Kaname Endô
He was 27, now 40 years old
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as Pak |
Hard Romanticker Crew
