Nagisa Oshima - Naked Youth (1960)

Seishun zankoku monogatari / Cruel Story of Youth / Naked Youth Directed By : Nagisa Oshima Language : Japanese Subtitles : English File Name .............: Naked Youth.avi File Size (in bytes) ..: 733,519,872 bytes Runtime (# of frames) .: 01:36:58 (145450 frames) Video Codec ...........: XviD Frame Size ............: 608x256 () [=] [=2.375] FPS ...................: 25.000 Video Bitrate .........: 919 kb/s Bits per Pixel ........: 0.236 bpp B-VOP, N-VOP, QPel, GMC ......: []...[]...[]...[] Audio Codec ...........: 0x0055(MP3, ISO) MPEG-1 Layer 3 Sample Rate ...........: 48000 Hz Audio bitrate .........: 81 kb/s [1 channel(s)] VBR audio Interleave ............: 40 ms No. of audio streams ..: 1 AMG Review : Nagisa Oshima's groundbreaking film opens with young, attractive Mako and her friend hitching a ride from an old man. After her friend leaves, the man tries to rape her, and she is saved only by the handsome Kiyoshi. Later, against the background of the tumultuous 1960 U.S./Japan Security Treaty demonstrations, Kiyoshi and Mako walk along a grungy seaside lumberyard while talking about sex. He attempts to kiss her, she slaps him, and he throws her in the water. She cries out that she can't swim. When she continues to refuse his advances, he steps on her fingers as she clings to a log. Kiyoshi then saves Mako from a trio of seedy pimps looking to impress her into working for them, but after rescuing her, he forces himself on her again. With this unlikely beginning, Kiyoshi and Mako form a passionate though doomed romance. Soon she stops going to school and moves into his flea-ridden dive of an apartment. Utterly disillusioned with all trappings of societal convention, the two get cash by blackmailing businessmen and by shaking down Kiyoshi's middle-aged sugarmama. Tension with this Bonnie and Clyde duo builds after Mako has an abortion in a run down clinic, performed by an alcoholic doctor. With the savage fury of a cry from hell, this landmark Japanese teen drama is a brutal, scathing attack on the moral and cultural vacuity of Japan's newfound affluence after World War II. Cruel Story of Youth has widely been compared to Rebel Without a Cause; like Nicholas Ray's film, it features disillusioned teens rebelling against everything without really understanding why. Unlike its American counterpart, Cruel Story of Youth is unrelentingly dark and gritty, depicting mindless or coerced sex and brutal violence in a chillingly offhand manner. Made at a time when the restrained sentimentality of Yasujiro Ozu or existential humanism of Akira Kurosawa were the norm, this film shocks because of the social taboos it transgresses and the amount of venom it directs towards Japanese society. In style and politics, it bears a strong resemblance to Jean-Luc Godard's French New Wave masterpiece Breathless, released a year earlier. Both films gleefully subverted well-worn genres for their own political and aesthetic ends; and both employed a fresh, defiant style based on the hand-held camera. The success of Cruel Story of Youth ushered in the Japanese New Wave and established Nagisa Oshima as one of Japan's most prominent and daring directors. ********************************* FREAKYFLICKS ********************************** Freakyflicks is a free and open community dedicated to preserving and sharing cinematic art in the digital era. Our goal is to disseminate such works of art to the widest audience possible through the channels provided by P2P technology. The Freakyflicks collection is limited to those films that have played an exceptional role in the history of cinema and its progression in becoming a great art. Films that are usually described as classic, cult, arthouse and avant-garde. If you have films that fit this description feel free to share them and participate in our community. All you need do is include this tag in your upload and join us at the forum to announce your release. http://www.freakyflicks.tk http://freakyflicks.proboards54.com/ 'If we all seed just 1:1, give at least what we take, this torrent will NEVER DIE'

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mymovie77 (2007-09-05)

Hi
Thank you for this fantastic torrent. I have only one problem - the subtitles. The info says there are English sbts. After downloading the file I've realized there are not there. Do you know where could be the problem?
I would be very grateful for some help

Eluard (2009-02-14)

There are english subs. You will find them on the srt file. You can play it with vlc or gom media players (among others perhaps?). They are free software.
Thanks for your interesting list of uploads Iggy!