Young Thugs: Nostalgia

Overview

Nostalgia is Takashi Miike’s favorite film of his considerable body of work. Including biographical elements, Nostalgia centers around the home and school of a young boy, whose family mix the violent and dysfunctional with the comic and the loveable. Though containing elements of the sudden and shocking brutality that many associate with this director, Young Thugs – Nostalgia is more concerned with a child’s moment of leaving the internalized world of fantasy, and passing on eagerly to the next stage of life. A wonderful, touching, startling vision that is uniquely Miike’s.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

September 26, 1998

Original language

Japanese

Spoken languages

Japanese

Countries

Japan

Cast

Saki Takaoka,Takeshi Caesar,Toshikazu Nakaba,Setsuko Karasuma,Yoshinori Yasuda,Naoto Takenaka,Akihiro Shimizu,Yuki Nagata,Matsunosuke Shofukutei

Director

Takashi Miike

Writer

Riichi Nakaba,Masaru Nakamura

Producer

Yasuhiko Furusato,Toshiaki Nakazawa,Masao Kimura

Cinematography

Hideo Yamamoto

Music

Koji Endo

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0304296