Hard Romanticker
5.9
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…
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Cast
22 people
Shota Matsuda
Goo
Known for
BOYS OVER FLOWERS
Liar Game
Kento Nagayama
Tatsu
Known for
Sky of Love: Someone I love is there
Love Life
Tokio Emoto
Masaru
Known for
Perfect Days
Ju-On: Origins
Kaname Endo
Pak
Known for
Crows Zero II
Gota Watabe
Also in
Operation Love
Saru Lock
Naoki Kawano
Kaneko
Known for
Kamen Rider
Monster Island
Nobuaki Kaneko
Known for
Alice in Borderland
Crows Zero II
Motoki Ochiai
Known for
My Beautiful Man
Love Exposure
Yuya Endo
Kim
Known for
Last Samurai Standing
Godzilla Minus One
Jyonmyon Pe
Known for
Cold Fish
Why Don't You Play in Hell?
Yuma Ishigaki
Known for
Azumi 2: Death or Love
Gokusen
Keiko Awaji
Known for
Stray Dog
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Su-yeon Gu Director · Kaoru Wada Composer Hideyuki Mushû Cinematographer
United States release November 12, 2011 · Produced in Japan · Original title ハードロマンチッカー
Production
Toei Video Company, Ltd.
Production
Japan
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Original title
ハードロマンチッカー
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
United States · November 12, 2011
Theatrical
Japan · November 26, 2011
Theatrical
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