If You Were Young: Rage

"One of Fukasaku's grittiest and most hard-hitting portrayals of post-war Japanese society."-American Cinematheque

With the same visual flare used in his distinctive Yakuza films, director Kinji Fukasaku (The Yakuza Papers) tells the riveting story of five kids who come to Tokyo for work in If You Were Young: Rage.

In the 1960s, Japanese teens were often sent from rural areas to Tokyo and other major cities, helping to fuel Japan's rapid economic development. Fukasaku shows the shocking consequences for idealistic youths whose dreams are soon torn apart in a chaos of class turmoil and youthful indiscretion...