Live Today, Die Tomorrow!

Year: 1970

Runtime: 120 mins

Language: Japanese

Director: Kaneto Shindô

Thriller

Fresh out of school, Michio Yamada is assigned by a government program to a Tokyo department store where he works packing fruit. He later breaks into a house on an American base, steals a gun and goes on a killing spree. The narrative then flashes back to his troubled upbringing: the son of a disreputable father and a submissive mother, he grew up in poverty and witnessed the brutal rape of his sister.

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