Film · 2011 · 1h 48m

Hard Romanticker

Name: Hard Romanticker
Genre: Drama
Released: 2011-11-12
Duration: 1 h 48 min
Cast: Shota Matsuda, Kento Nagayama, Tokio Emoto, Kaname Endo, Gota Watabe

ハードロマンチッカー

Drama

Create a free account Add it to your list, track every episode, rate it.

Synopsis

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…