Crazed Fruit (Special Edition)
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 26 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 28, 2005
- Originally Released: 1956
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ayuko Fujishiro, Taizo Fukami & Mie Kitahara | |
Directed by | Ko Nakahira |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
A troubled-youth movie that doesn't waste too much time trying to shock.
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Slant Magazine
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Captures a mood convincingly -- and, in cinematic terms, appropriately -- and it plugged into a cultural zeitgeist that bore it up and away.
Filmcritic.com
Rating: 5/5 --
Without a doubt, Crazed Fruit is a lost masterpiece of early Japanese filmmaking.
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DVDTalk.com
Rating: 3/5 --
Crazed Fruit was like nothing anyone in Japan had seen before, at least from one their own. If the film doesn't seem quite so groundbreaking today, it is only because its style and themes have been driven into the ground by countless others.
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Q Network Film Desk
Rating: A --
A delicious treat.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
The deep hurt and despair of the climactic passage, set against a milieu of unrelenting leisure, sun, and affluence, is still stunning.
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Village Voice
Product Description:
Japanese filmmaker Ko Nakahira's debut film CRAZED FRUIT (KURUTTA KAJITSU) sparked outrage and controversy when it was first released in 1956. Based on the sensational novel by Shintaro Ishihara (who much later in life was elected governor of Tokyo), CRAZED FRUIT chronicles the changing values and mores of the postwar generation of Japanese youth, dubbed the taiyozoku ("sun tribe"). During one eventful summer vacation, a pair of brothers whittle away their time drinking, gambling, boating, and chasing women. Like many postwar youth movements around the world, the Japanese teens were criticized for having supposedly loose morals and no goals, and CRAZED FRUIT was denounced for portraying and even lionizing this new generation and its values.