Cruel Story of Youth

Year: 1960

Runtime: 96 mins

Language: Japanese

Director: Nagisa Ôshima

DramaRomanceCrime

A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men.

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