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Hard Romanticker (2011)

Original title: ハードロマンチッカー

PG-13 · 2011-11-12 · 1h 48m · JA
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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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Shota MatsudaShota MatsudaGooKento NagayamaKento NagayamaTatsuTokio EmotoTokio EmotoMasaruKaname EndoKaname EndoPakGota WatabeGota WatabeNaoki KawanoNaoki KawanoKanekoNobuaki KanekoNobuaki KanekoMotoki OchiaiMotoki OchiaiYuya EndoYuya EndoKimJyonmyon PeJyonmyon PeYuma IshigakiYuma IshigakiKeiko AwajiKeiko Awaji

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What is Hard Romanticker about?

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…

How long is Hard Romanticker?

Hard Romanticker has a runtime of 108 minutes.

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