| The Youth Killer | |
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| Directed by | Kazuhiko Hasegawa |
| Produced by | Shōhei Imamura Kano Otsuka |
| Written by | Novel: Kenji Nakagami Screenplay: Tsutomu Tamura |
| Music by | Godiego |
| Cinematography | Tatsuo Suzuki |
| Editing by | Sachiko Yamaji |
| Distributed by | Art Theatre Guild |
| Released | October 23, 1976 |
| Running time | 132 min. |
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The Youth Killer (青春の殺人者 Seishun no Satsujinsha), aka Young Murderer is a 1976 Japanese movie which marked the debut of director Kazuhiko Hasegawa. It was based on a novel written by Kenji Nakagami.
Plot summary[]
One morning Jun Saiki gets in an argument with his disapproving father over his girlfriend. In the heat of the moment he ends up murdering his father. When he decides to turn himself in to the police his mother stops him, coldly suggesting they dispose of the body themselves and act as though nothing had happened. As Jun follows through with her advice she has a change of heart and threatens her son with a knife, setting the stage for a second tragedy.
Cast[]
- Yutaka Mizutani ... Jun Saiki
- Mieko Harada ... Keiko
- Etsuko Ichihara ... Jun's mother
- Ryōhei Uchida ... Jun's father
- Kazuko Shirakawa ... Keiko's mother
- Jun Eto ... Michio Miyata
- Kaori Momoi ... Ikuko Ishikawa
- Takeo Chii ... Toru Hidaka
- Yuji Arikawa
- Kai Atō
- Go Hasegawa ... Son at the beach
- Kazuhiko Hasegawa ... Father at the beach
- Koji Himuro
- Haruo Kariya
- Akio Kuwasaki
- Sue Mitobe ... Hunter's woman
- Yoshihiko Miyake
- Tomoko Noguchi
- Hironori Sakuma
- Makoto Satō
- Akira Shimizu
- Kumi Sugita
- Akira Takahashi
- Chigusa Takayama
- Saburo Taniyama
- Tsutomu Yuzawa