A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.
Direction
Kinoshita's warm humanism makes melodrama feel like lived memory.
Acting
The four leads have chaotic best-friend chemistry that feels genuinely improvised.
Cinematography
Gorgeous color photography capturing 1960s Tokyo in transitional amber.
Director
Keisuke Kinoshita
Tsutomu Matsukawa
Yasuhiko Mori
Yūsuke Kawazu
Shinichi Miyamoto
Shinichirō Mikami
Ichinosuke Okada
Kei Yamamoto
Hiroshi Hirao
Shima Iwashita
Noriko Atsugi
Chieko Baisho
Yuko Nakajima
Manami Fuji
Toshiko Honjo
Chieko Higashiyama
Okada's grandmother
Masao Mishima
Professor Hirayama
Tomo'o Nagai
Hirai
Yoshiko Tsubouchi
Bar madam
Kingorō Yanagiya
Dining hall proprietor
Kiiton Masuda
Economics professor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Japan's economic miracle, the film captures youth caught between traditional values and American-influenced stardom culture.
Kinoshita was Shochiku's golden boy before Oshima's rebellion; this was his attempt to speak to younger audiences he was losing.
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