Boys, Be Ambitious
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Chunba and Kotetsu, grows up in the working class neighborhood of Kishiwada in Osaka in the mid-seventies. Their life in school is a never-ending series of fights and reprisals against rival gangs landing them in trouble with organised crime and in the juvenile court.
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Part of Young Thugs Collection
4 films
Cast
13 people
Takashi Okamura
Known for
The Violence Action
Hiroyuki Yabe
Also in
Sentosha: Battle Wheels
Messengers
Kazuyuki Izutsu
Takeshi Hamada
Wui-Sin Chong
Nanako Okochi
Known for
Monday
Masayoshi Azuma
Hiroyuki Miyasako
Known for
Kamikaze Girls
The Great Yokai War
Nanako Ôkôchi
Ryôko
Wishing Chong
Houka Kinoshita
Known for
Kamen Rider
Sonatine
Riichi Nakaba
Kazuyuki Izutsu Director · Masayoshi Azuma Screenplay Wishing Chong Screenplay
First release March 9, 1996 · Produced in Japan · Production Yoshimoto Kogyo Company
Production
Shochiku
Production
Yoshimoto Kogyo Company
Production
Japan
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Original title
岸和田少年愚連隊
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · March 9, 1996
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Romania
May 25, 2012 · Festivalul Filmului Japonez
Russia
August 1, 2012 · Limited theatrical · Retrospective of Japanese films about love and youth
Slovakia
March 16, 2013 · Anime Show
Taiwan
July 5, 2013
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