The End of Love (1961)
Synopsis
A leading postwar Japanese film critic and theorist who co-founded the seminal film magazine Eiga Hihyo (Film Criticism) in 1957, Eizo Yamagiwa made his directorial debut with this independent feature—long thought lost until a negative was recently discovered—about a group of idle bourgeois students known as the “Roppongi Tribe” (Roppongi zoku). Depicting the resignation and nihilism of the postwar generation in the years following the Anpo Treaty conflicts through a coming-of-age narrative, Yamagiwa offers sharp criticism of the prevalent characterizations of Japan's new youth offered by Nikkatsu's taiyozoku (“Sun Tribe”) films and the New Wave at large.
Release Date: 1961-11-01
Runtime: 78 minutes
Director: Eizō Yamagiwa
Top Cast
- Kōji Matsubara as Kenji Nomura
- Mitsuko Sawamura as Yuri
- Terumi Hoshi as Michi Makino
- Takashi Fujiki as Yoji Nakaoka
- Yūko Kashiwagi as Akemi
- Namiji Namiura as Noriko
- Harue Tone as Michi's mother
- Fumiko Miyata as Nurse
- Masami Akimoto as Akiko
- Akira Nakamura as Michi's father
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