Hard RomantickerMovie
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…
About Hard Romanticker
Hard Romanticker is a 2011 drama movie directed by Su-yeon Gu.
The production information lists a runtime of 1h 48m, production credits from Japan, an original language code of JA.
The credited cast includes Shota Matsuda, Kento Nagayama, Tokio Emoto, Kaname Endo. The synopsis above summarizes the central premise without adding details beyond the available title information.
