Cruel Story of Youth / Shiro from Amakusa
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- What is Cruel Story of Youth / Shiro from Amakusa about?
- CRUEL STORY OF YOUTH, 1960, Janus Films, 96 min. The film focuses on a couple of teenage lovers who declare: “We have no dreams, so we won’t see them destroyed.” Emblems of the alienated youth culture that had emerged in Japan, the two rebels lounge in sleazy bars, make love in brackish industrial backwaters and roar through Tokyo on a motorcycle, attempting to achieve total freedom but finding only its opposite. In Japanese with English subtitles.
SHIRO FROM AMAKUSA, 1962, Toei, 100 min. Hired to make a vehicle for hot young star Hashizo Okawa, Nagisa Oshima settled on a true story, familiar to every Japanese student: that of a 1637 rebellion in which starving Christian peasants, oppressed by landowners and samurai alike, rose up, led by a teenage boy called Shiro, against the Shogunate. Oshima aims at making a popular historical epic, but his rebellious ways turn SHIRO FROM AMAKUSA into a fascinating succession of subversions.
