The End of Love

A leading postwar Japanese film critic and theorist who co-founded the seminal film magazine Eiga Hihyo (Film Criticism) in 1957, Eizo Yamagiwa made his directorial debut with this independent feature—long thought lost until a negative was recently discovered—about a group of idle bourgeois students known as the “Roppongi Tribe” (Roppongi zoku). Depicting the resignation and nihilism of the postwar generation in the years following the Anpo Treaty conflicts through a coming-of-age narrative, Yamagiwa offers sharp criticism of the prevalent characterizations of Japan's new youth offered by Nikkatsu's taiyozoku (“Sun Tribe”) films and the New Wave at large.

• Eizō YamagiwaDirector
• Hikaru HayashiOriginal Music Composer

• Kōji MatsubaraKenji Nomura
• Mitsuko SawamuraYuri
• Terumi HoshiMichi Makino
• Takashi FujikiYoji Nakaoka
• Yūko KashiwagiAkemi
• Namiji NamiuraNoriko
• Harue ToneMichi's mother
• Fumiko MiyataNurse
• Masami AkimotoAkiko
• Akira NakamuraMichi's father
• Yoji NarutoCast
• Hiroshi InoueSinger