The read
A Balasaur Score of 59 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 5.9/10. Streaming on Tubi.
Synopsis
Writer-director Gu Su-yeon's new film draws on his own semiautobiographical account of growing up as a delinquent zainichi Korean (Japanese-born, but of Korean ancestry) in the seaside city of Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture, a working-class hellhole overflowing with sex and fury. Day after day, (fictional) Gu finds fresh foes and makes the local hoodlums want to kick his ass. While working multiple dead-end part-time jobs, he cruises around town on his scooter in search of gangland trouble: leaping across rooftops with irate hordes of punks in hot pursuit, running off with a fetching belle in a sailor suit, rescuing a schoolgirl from being gang-raped at a glue-sniffing orgy…
Ratings
3 audience votes
Key crew
- Su-yeon GuDirector
- Kaoru WadaOriginal Music Composer
- Su-yeon GuScreenplay
Cast
- Shota MatsudaGoo
- Kento NagayamaTatsu
- Tokio EmotoMasaru
- Kaname EndoPak
- Gota WatabeCast
- Naoki KawanoKaneko
- Nobuaki KanekoCast
- Motoki OchiaiCast
- Yuya EndoKim
- Jyonmyon PeCast
- Yuma IshigakiCast
- Keiko AwajiCast
