Fighting Elegy

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Fighting Elegy ★★ Kenka Ereji 1966

A high school boy longs for an unattainable girl and channels all those teenaged hormones into brawling with street gangs. Then he has an encounter with an ultraright wing militarist that changes his life and sets him on the path to fascism. Japanese with subtitles. 86m/B VHS . JP Hideki Takahashi, Yusuke Kawazu, Jinko Asano, Mitsuo Kataoka; D: Seijun Suzuki.

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