The End of Love

Overview

A leading postwar Japanese film critic and theorist who co-founded the seminal film magazine Eiga Hihyo (Film Criticism) in 1957, Eizo Yamagiwa made his directorial debut with this independent feature—long thought lost until a negative was recently discovered—about a group of idle bourgeois students known as the “Roppongi Tribe” (Roppongi zoku). Depicting the resignation and nihilism of the postwar generation in the years following the Anpo Treaty conflicts through a coming-of-age narrative, Yamagiwa offers sharp criticism of the prevalent characterizations of Japan's new youth offered by Nikkatsu's taiyozoku (“Sun Tribe”) films and the New Wave at large.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

November 1, 1961

Original language

Japanese

Spoken languages

Japanese

Countries

Japan

Production

Sagawa Production

Cast

Yoji Naruto,Harue Tone,Fumiko Miyata,Hiroshi Inoue,Terumi Hoshi,Yūji Hori,Masami Akimoto,Namiji Namiura,Akemi Nara,Kōji Matsubaraand 4 more

Director

Eizō Yamagiwa

Writer

Masami Akimoto

Producer

Akira Sagawa

Cinematography

Kiminao Okada

Music

Hikaru Hayashi

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt2047772