Gate of Youth

Gate of Youth (1981)

The story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal miner. Ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly every aspect of his life. Shinsuke's father a group leader at the mine, dies while bravely using dynamite to rescue a group of trapped Korean miners. Several older men attempt to help he and his mother cope, including a friendly Harley-riding yakuza boss. This movie has it all, drama, romance, sex, yakuza and violence! It is based on a story by Hiroyuki Itsuki that was originally serialized in the magazine Shukan Gendai in 1969-70.

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  • Release Date: 1981-01-15
  • Runtime: 2h 20min
  • Directors: Kinji Fukasaku, Koreyoshi Kurahara.

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Cast

  • Bunta Sugawara

    Shigezo Ibuki

  • Keiko Matsuzaka

    Tae Ibuki

  • Koichi Sato

    Shisuke Ibuki

  • Kaoru Sugita

    Orie Maki

  • Hitomi Kageyama

  • Nenji Kobayashi

    Chota

  • Taiko Shinbashi

    Masae Maki

  • Aoi Nakajima

    Kimiyo Hirai

  • Junichi Ishida

    Hirano

  • Takeshi Ōbayashi

  • Sakae Umezu

  • Kantarō Suga

    Ichimura

  • Kikuo Kaneuchi

  • Masataka Iwao

  • Kazuo Katō

    Owner

  • Shinji Kanai

  • Yoshiro Ichikawa

  • Saburo Tokito

    Haruo

  • Kōji Hio

  • Manabu Morita

  • Keijirō Shiga

  • Tsunehiko Watase

    Kanayama

  • Michimaro Otabe

  • Masaharu Arikawa

  • Sen Okaji

  • Isao Takanami

  • Satoru Nabe

  • Katsutoshi Akiyama

  • Masako Araki

  • Moeko Ezawa

  • Ryūnosuke Kaneda

    Hanezawa

  • Mizuho Suzuki

    Narrator (voice)

  • Koji Tsuruta

    Yabetora

  • Tomisaburō Wakayama

    Ryugoro Hanawa

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