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Fighting Elegy

1966 · 86 min

A stylized, darkly comic plunge into repressed adolescence and escalating violence, with a restless, ironic energy.

Directed by: Seijun Suzuki
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Hideki Takahashi, Yūsuke Kawazu, Takeshi Katō

Overview: Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually, becomes involved with the radical Kita Ikki group.

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Directed by: Seijun Suzuki
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Hideki Takahashi, Yūsuke Kawazu, Takeshi Katō

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Tone: darkstrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 2 of 3
absurdstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: violence
identity
obsession
coming-of-age
isolation
Places: school
small town
home
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild

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Action	6
Horror	2
Humour	5
Realism	7
Romance	4
Tension	6
Darkness	7
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: comedy, drama
Directed by: Seijun Suzuki
Written by: Kaneto Shindō
Starring: Hideki Takahashi, Yūsuke Kawazu, Takeshi Katō, Isao Tamagawa, Kayo Matsuo, Junko Asano, Keiichi Ishikawa, Akira Takahashi
Music: Naozumi Yamamoto
Cinematography: Kenji Hagiwara
Runtime: 86 min
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese

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