If You Were Young: Rage, also known as Our Dear Buddies, is a 1970 Japanese film financed, produced, directed and co-written by Kinji Fukasaku. The film stars Tetsuo Ishidate and Gin Maeda as a pair o
Battles Without Honor and Humanity, also known in the West as The Yakuza Papers, is a Japanese yakuza film series produced by Toei Company. Inspired by a series of magazine articles by journalist Kōic
If You Were Young: Rage
…Japan's economic miracle. He also wrote that it was the director's first film to show themes that would become central to his later works, such as the Battles Without Honor and Humanity series and Graveyard of Honor. Dennis Lim of The Village Voice praised If You Were Young: Rage as one of Fukasaku's best and least typical films. He…
Screenshot from the first installment of the series, featuring the title against the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.