Thriller · Japan · 1970 · 2h 0m

Live Today, Die Tomorrow!

裸の十九才

Live Today, Die Tomorrow! poster
Director
Kaneto Shindō
Cast
Daijirō Harada as Michio Yamada Nobuko Otowa as Take Yamada Daigo Kusano as Hanjiro Yamada Keiko Torii as Sakie Hayashi Kei Satō as Kiwako Taichi as
Crew
Kiyomi Kuroda — Director of Photography Hisao Enoki — Editor Hikaru Hayashi — Original Music Composer Kaneto Shindō — Screenplay Shozo Matsuda — Screenplay Isao Seki — Screenplay
Synopsis

Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department store as part of a government programme. He takes a gun from a house on an American base and uses it to kill several people. The scene changes to Yamada's childhood. Yamada is born the child of a reprobate and a weak-willed woman. As a boy Yamada, experiences poverty and the rape of his sister at first hand.

Mood & Themes
gunbased on true storyseries of murders
Key Collaborators
Kaneto Shindō Director Kiyomi Kuroda Director of Photography Hisao Enoki Editor Hikaru Hayashi Original Music Composer Kaneto Shindō Screenplay Shozo Matsuda Screenplay Isao Seki Screenplay Kazuo Kuwabara Producer Setsuo Noto Producer Hisao Itoya Producer
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