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Audience Reviews for Kurutta Kajitsu (crazed Fruit) Jul 17, 2018. What a fascinating film this is. Elements of it surprised me for 1956, and in particular for a Japanese movie. It seems to me a.

Controversial upon initial release for its portrayal of delinquent Japanese youth, Kurutta Kajitsu (also known as Crazed Fruit and Juvenile Jungle) has since been acknowledged as a trailblazing work in the Japanese. In this powerful drama with comic undertones from Japan, a lazy summer by the beach develops a sinister undercurrent when two brothers' (Masahiko Tsugawa and Yujiro Ishihara.

And if you're looking for family melodrama or down-to-earth dramas, Yasujiro Ozu's films are all excellent, and I would also highly recommend Crazed Fruit, which is a fascinating look at the teenagers of postwar Japan. Also my favorite movie of all time, Gojira. EDIT: forgot to add the Suzuki recommendations.

Criterion calls upon all its monochrome magic for the release of this forgotten title, and the results are just breathtaking. While there is a single sequence, near the start of the carnival scene, where the print shows obvious wear and age, the rest of Crazed Fruit is a near-flawless, amazingly clear 1.33:1 work of art. The darks and lights.

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Ko Nakahira's Crazed Fruit is, to put it mildly, an immensely welcome addition to the Criterion roster. It is uniquely modernist, impressionistically rendered, sensual in its physicality, and absolutely unlike anything to precede it in Japanese cinema. To put it bluntly, Ko's film is as significant a break from aesthetic (and moral) traditions as Godard's Breathless would prove to be two years.

Crazed Fruit, also known as Junevile Jungle, is one of the films that launched the Sun Tribe movement in films (taiyo zoku). It's adapted by the controversial novel by Shintaro Ishihara and it's a Nikkatsu prouction. Two brother are going on holidays to the beach at their parent's vacation house. They are young teenagers, carefree and spend most of their time in looking for girls, hanging out.

The film is Ko Nakahira's Crazed Fruit, and the good people at the Criterion Collection have polished it up for DVD; here's hoping that this influential and worthwhile film doesn't get forgotten.

A troubled-youth movie that doesn’t waste too much time trying to shock, Crazed Fruit takes what could have been a simple exploitation flick about bad teens getting into trouble by the seashore and turns it into a doomed love story fraught with morality. Filmed over just 17 days in 1956, director Ko Nakahira’s second film helped launch the Japanese vogue for so-called “Sun Tribe.

Arrow Video Criterion Collection Doctor Who Game of Thrones Harry Potter Outlander Star Wars. Special Values. Crazed Fruit also foreshadows the festering political agitation of the '60s and international New Wave cinema. Though the onscreen action may seem constrained by today's standards, the subtext is dripping with sexual intensity. Rail-thin.