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A kaleidoscopic fantasia that contains "youth" and "beast" only insofar as 1963 pop/youth culture was that violently upstart thing, not unlike the yakuza? And so Youth of the Beast is a yakuza tale with a premise like Akira Kurosawa's Yojinbo, but denuded of an easy definition of which side is which. It stars Suzuki's iconic '60s regular Jo Shishido, with his dare-you-to-call-them-out artificial cheek implants like new acting blasphemy. There are drug-addled whores, gunfights in a new colour apocalypse, and at least one alien landscape: the sudden mind-searing eruption of a sulphur yellow desert like an action-figure playset with overspill of unbridled lust. (Eureka Entertainment)
(more)Cast
Jô Shishido
Japan
Best movies:
Switching - Goodbye Me (2007)
Kisaragi (2007)
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron (1978)
Seijun Suzuki
Japan
Best movies:
Cold Fever (1995)
Youth of the Beast (1963)
Eiji Gô
Japan
Best movies:
Youth of the Beast (1963)
Tokyo Drifter (1966)
The Yakuza (1974)
Takashi Nomura
Best movies:
Youth of the Beast (1963)
Suicide Circle (2001)
Occult (2009)
Nobuo Kaneko
Japan
Best movies:
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)
Shogun (1980) (series)
Living (1952)
Tamio Kawaji
Japan
Best movies:
Story of a Prostitute (1965)
Youth of the Beast (1963)
Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)
渡辺美佐子
Japan
Best movies:
Bushido, Samurai Saga (1963)
Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad (2007)
The Great Passage (2013)
Minako Kozuki
Japan
Best movies:
Youth of the Beast (1963)
Stolen Desire (1958)
Ichiro Kijima
Best movies:
Youth of the Beast (1963)
Kinzô Shin
Best movies:
Youth of the Beast (1963)
Students of War (1950)
Akiji Kobayashi
Japan
Best movies:
Harakiri (1962)
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (1972)
Shogun Assassin (1980)
Eimei Esumi
Japan
Best movies:
Youth of the Beast (1963)
Mizuho Suzuki
Best movies:
Youth of the Beast (1963)