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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.

Top Cast

  • Kōji Matsubara

    Kōji Matsubara

    Kenji Nomura

  • Mitsuko Sawamura

    Mitsuko Sawamura

    Yuri

  • Terumi Hoshi

    Terumi Hoshi

    Michi Makino

  • Takashi Fujiki

    Takashi Fujiki

    Yoji Nakaoka

  • Yūko Kashiwagi

    Yūko Kashiwagi

    Akemi

  • Namiji Namiura

    Namiji Namiura

    Noriko

  • Harue Tone

    Harue Tone

    Michi's mother

  • Fumiko Miyata

    Fumiko Miyata

    Nurse

  • Masami Akimoto

    Masami Akimoto

    Akiko

Overview

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.

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