Youth of the Beast (1963)
Yajû no seishun
92 min
When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.
- Release date
- April 21, 1963
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Music
- Hajime Okumura
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Trailer
Cast
- Jō Shishido as Jôji 'Jo' Mizuno
- Misako Watanabe as Kumiko Takeshita
- Tamio Kawachi as Hideo Nomoto
- Minako Katsuki as Sawako Miura
- Daisaburō Hirata as Shibata
- Eimei Esumi as Gorô Minami
- Eiji Gō as Shigeru Takechi
- Akiji Kobayashi as Tatsuo Nomoto
- Masao Shimizu as Yôsuke Ishiyama
- Nobuo Kaneko as Sôichi Ozawa
- Kōichi Uenoyama as Masao Hisano
- Yūzō Kiura as Takeo Minegishi
- Naomi Hoshi as Keiko
- Hiroshi Kôno as Seizô Honma
- Shuntarō Tamamura as Shôichi Maeda
- Mizuho Suzuki as Detective Hirokawa
- Zenji Yamada as Fujita
- Yuriko Abe
- Ikuko Kimuro
- Shirō Yanase as Ken Ishizaki
- Tomio Aoki as Terumi Matsui
- Ichirō Kijima as Detective Kôichi Takeshita - Jo's Former Partner
- Gô Kuroda as Tokio Morikawa
Crew
- Seijun Suzuki · Director
- Keiichirô Ryû · Writer
- Tadaaki Yamazaki · Writer
- Haruhiko Ôyabu · Writer
- Keinosuke Kubo · Producer
- Hajime Okumura · Composer
- Kazue Nagatsuka · Cinematographer
- Akira Suzuki · Editor
- Yoshinaga Yoko'o · Production designer