Hard Romanticker
Hard Romanticker
PG-13 | 12 November 2011 (USA)
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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…

Reviews
Fairaher

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

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Sharkflei

Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

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Jemima

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

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Celia

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

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