295 Crazed Fruit
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295 Crazed Fruit
Crazed Fruit
Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking, in this seminal Sun Tribe (taiyozoku) film from director Ko Nakahira. Adapted from the controversial novel by Shintaro Ishihara, and critically savaged for its lurid portrayal of the postwar sexual revolution among Japan's young and privileged, Crazed Fruit is an anarchic outcry against tradition and the older generation.
Special Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- Audio commentary by renowned Japanese-film scholar Donald Richie
- Theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- Plus: A 16-page booklet featuring new essays by critic Chuck Stephens and film scholar Michael Raine
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Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking, in this seminal Sun Tribe (taiyozoku) film from director Ko Nakahira. Adapted from the controversial novel by Shintaro Ishihara, and critically savaged for its lurid portrayal of the postwar sexual revolution among Japan's young and privileged, Crazed Fruit is an anarchic outcry against tradition and the older generation.
Special Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- Audio commentary by renowned Japanese-film scholar Donald Richie
- Theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- Plus: A 16-page booklet featuring new essays by critic Chuck Stephens and film scholar Michael Raine
Criterionforum.org user rating averages
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Apparently has a great score by Toru Takemitsu.Jun-Dai wrote:Kurutta kajitsu directed by Nakahira Ko
"The film falls into a 1950s genre dubbed the "Sun Tribe," portraying the aimless lifestyles of teenaged delinquents who hang out at the beach. Featuring two brothers sexually involved with the same girl, the film outraged many Japanese audiences, but impressed French New Wave directors with its raw energy and innovative style."
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from Tony Rayns' essay included with Criterion's Fighting Elegy:
(edited some previously posted material)The desires, ambitions, and frustrations of young people had been on Japan�s cultural agenda for at least a decade already. Crazed Fruit (1956, directed by Nakahira Ko) had launched the cycle of movies about delinquent, pleasure-seeking kids that made a star of Ishihara Yujiro, and Oshima Nagisa had given the genre a political spin in his debut feature A Town of Love and Hope (1959).
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From Donald Richie's A Hundred Years of Japanese Film (2001):
Crazed Fruit (Kurutta kajitsu, aka Affair at Kamakura/Juvenile Passion/Passion Juvenile/This Scorching Sea, 1956), Nakahira Kô. One of the seminal films of the fifties, a well-made atmospheric picture that made the taiyazoku flaming-youth genre respectable. Older and younger brother (Ishihara Yujiro and Tsugawa Masahiko) become involved with the same girl (Kitahara Mie) at a summer resort with disastrous results. Takemitsu Toru's first film score as well. 86 mins.
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Hiroshi Komatsu wrote:This [Crazed Fruit] represented an attempt to establish the 'angry youth' film as a genre, after the model of Nicholas Ray's Rebel without a Cause and Ingmar Bergman's Summer with Monika. There was a bourgeois idealism inherent in the literature of Ishihara which was mirrored in these adaptations [Crazed Fruit and Season of the Sun] of his work. The films lacked any dimension of class-consciousness but represented rebellious youth in an imaginary world. This tendency towards a lack of realism of setting was to constitute an important element of Nikkatsu's youth films and action films for years to come.
someone else wrote:But it is with the composition, in collaboration with Masaru Sato, of his first full-length feature-film score - for Ko Nakahira's Kuratta Kajutsu ('Crazed Fruit') in 1956 - that Takemitsu embarked on the production of the particular form of 'incidental music' on which his reputation in this field today largely rests. This was to prove the first in a long list of film scores to which Takemitsu continued to add right up to the year preceding his death.
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Ishihara, it appears, is currently the governor of Tokyo (first elected to the position in 1999) Also, there is a TV series based on he book. I'm guessing this guy did the subtitles.
A page for a retrospective on Ko
Original poster art
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A page for a retrospective on Ko
Original poster art
(a still from the remake:
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boy maybe this is just some bizarre connection i'm only making in my mind, but the title of this sounds like a strange rip off of a more famous film... anybody heard of a little flick called 'Wild Strawberries'? did Bergman have any sort of influence on this, or is this just an homage to a great film? I was going to see this one anyway, but Wild Strawberries is one of my favorite films... this better be a good homage if it indeed is.
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In David Desser's book Eros Plus Massacre he quotes Oshima Nagisa about this film (which contains a spoiler):
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"I felt that in the sound of the girl's shirt being ripped and the hum of the motorboat slashing through the older brother, sensitive people could hear the wails of a seagull heralding a new age in Japanese Cinema"
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First review in from DVD File, of all places.
Criterion DVD also has the spine and back cover up.
I'm actually really eager for this one. It sounds like a fascinating bit of cultural debris - Kevin and Perry Go Large but 50 years earlier in Japan. Plus it's from Nikkatsu, who can always be depended upon for the more bizarre and tawdry bits of Japanese film heritage.
Criterion DVD also has the spine and back cover up.
I'm actually really eager for this one. It sounds like a fascinating bit of cultural debris - Kevin and Perry Go Large but 50 years earlier in Japan. Plus it's from Nikkatsu, who can always be depended upon for the more bizarre and tawdry bits of Japanese film heritage.
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The ever-excitable Bill Gibron at DVD Talk seems to like it too
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