Youth in Fury

The film is set in the year 1960. That year the security treaty between Japan and America is at issue. The treaty gives rise to large student demonstrations. At the centre of the account is Takuya. Takuya is the son of a wealthy family. He has no need to work, and that leaves him in a void. He feels he belongs to nothing. On one side is that idle comfort. On the other stands the hard politics outside. Takuya tries to find his footing between them. Alienation is what the account is really about. Shinichirō Mikami and Shima Iwashita take the leads, with Kayoko Honoo and Kazuya Kosaka also in the cast, in Masahiro Shinoda’s Japanese film of 1960.