18 Roughs

 

While 18 Roughs was made the year after the success of Love Affair at Akitsu Spa, it could hardly be more different from this beautiful melodrama. Wether too outlandish or ahead of its time, this film was completely neglected at the time of its release and only reevaluated recently. Neither a sensacionalist gang movie nor a Marxist-humanist outcry over social injustice, Yoshida’s realistic depi [...]

Runtime

108 min