Suzuki Seijun - Youth of the Beast (1963) CRITERION

Youth of the Beast Title Yaju no seishun Year 1963 Director Seijun Suzuki Starring Joji 'Jo' Mizuno as Jo Shishido Misako Watanabe as Kumiko Takeshita Seijun Suzuki as Detective Hirokawa imdb http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057697/ allmovie Included in the Criterion Collection (Spine# 268). Plot Synopsis by Jonathan Crow Youth of the Beast marked a turning point in director Seijun Suzuki's career. No longer content to just crank out production-line gangster films, here Suzuki starts to assert his own voice. The plot is fairly typical for the genre: chipmunk-cheeked Jo Shishido stars as ex-cop Jo Mizuno, who muscles his way into the shadowy world of the yakuza. He gets hired by the clan that killed his former partner while double-dealing with the clan's rival. Yet the plot contains some particularly Suzuki-like details. Why is Jo's partner more interested in guns than in women? Why does Hide, the notorious gay gangster, always slash the face of anyone who mentions his mother? What does this all have to do with the Takeshita School of Knitting? Suzuki's audacious style heightens the absurdity and artifice of both the genre and the medium with pop-art colors, loopy camera placements, and bizarre, dream-like images: A feather-clad dancer silently struts behind sound-proofed two-way mirrors, a pink dust storm serendipitously occurs while a pimp whips a junkie prostitute. The film is a dizzying visual feast whose tone Seijun Suzuki would amplify to the most absurd heights in his later films, Tokyo Drifter (1966) and Branded to Kill (1967). File Info: ~ [File] Format : AVI File size : 700 MiB PlayTime : 1h 31mn Bit rate : 1067 Kbps [Video] Codec : DivX 5 Codec/Family : MPEG-4V PlayTime : 1h 31mn Bit rate : 967 Kbps Width : 624 pixels Height : 272 pixels Display Aspect ratio : 2.25 Frame rate : 23.976 fps StreamSize : 634 MiB [Audio] Codec : MPEG-1 Audio layer 3 Codec profile : Joint stereo PlayTime : 1h 31mn Bit rate mode : VBR Bit rate : 87 Kbps Minimum bit rate : 128 Kbps Channel(s) : 2 channels Sampling rate : 48 KHz Resolution : 16 bits StreamSize : 57.2 MiB Writing library : LAME3.97 Subtitles are in IDX/SUB format (with the SUBs compressed). As before, the usual caveat applies: To play the subs correctly in standalone or VLC, you have to uncompress the .RAR file. Ripped by -=:ZEiNAB:=- To Raphael :-; ******************************** 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://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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zeinabqureshi (2008-03-19)

Okay, the first downloads have been completed...and one other person is seeding...
Seed and enjoy...

zeinabqureshi (2008-03-22)

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Don't really know if this is proper... but this is just the sort of movie the guys who look for freaky flicks tend to go after...

papovik (2008-03-29)

thanks for this nice up! i'll seed a while once i get it.

zeinabqureshi (2008-11-16)

@papovik:
Seems like you've been seeding quite a while...or someone else has...in any case, thanks for downloading and seeding.
:-;

faisalkidwai (2009-03-21)

Zeinab, I always thought I was crazy about films but you are in a different league all together. The depth and breadth of movies you have seen is simply amazing. You would do great as a film critic.
P.S. I am posting this message on other movie boards because I do not know which one you would read.

craigward (2009-04-03)

Great rip, and a fantastic movie. Stylish, violent and thoroughly entertaining.

zeinabqureshi (2009-04-07)

@CraigWard,
(Un)fortunately, all of Suzuki's movies are like that...mindless, with a wfaer-thin plot, lots of action and blood and colour, and unforgettably tight. He made a movie a year, so there should be something like 25-30 of these...Now that's fortunate if you have alot of time, and unfortunate because each movie will feel like a part of an unconnected series...but each story is different.
Thanks for downloading...

riccardo2 (2010-06-30)

How do I get the subtitles to work? No luck so far....

zeinabqureshi (2011-03-23)

@riccardo2:
Theres a .SUB file inside the rar file. Unpack the RAR file. Now, the IDX + SUB file will work. The reason why the SUB was rarred was to make file fit into a 700-MB CD. Of course, nobody does that now.

camiimii (2012-04-15)

Thank you!!

canofubik (2014-02-06)

7.5: Incredibly small picture.