The End of Love (1961)
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.
| Movie ID | 149955 |
|---|---|
| Genre | – |
| Director | Eizō Yamagiwa |
| Main cast | Kōji Matsubara, Mitsuko Sawamura, Terumi Hoshi, Takashi Fujiki, Yūko Kashiwagi, Namiji Namiura, Harue Tone, Fumiko Miyata |
| Release date | 1 November 1961 |
| Release year | 1961 |
| Language | Japanese |
| Duration | 78 min (1h 18m) |
| Rating | – |
| Production house | Sagawa Production |
Director: Eizō Yamagiwa
Top cast
Kōji MatsubaraKenji Nomura
Mitsuko SawamuraYuri
Terumi HoshiMichi Makino
Takashi FujikiYoji Nakaoka
Yūko KashiwagiAkemi
Namiji NamiuraNoriko
Harue ToneMichi's mother
Fumiko MiyataNurse
Masami AkimotoAkiko
Akira NakamuraMichi's father
Yoji Naruto
Hiroshi InoueSinger
Akemi NaraMakiko Kawamura
Yūji Hori
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