The End of Love
A leading postwar Japanese film critic and theorist who co-founded the seminal film magazine Eiga Hihyo (Film Criticism) in 1957, Eizo Yamagiwa made his directorial debut with this independent feature—long thought lost until a negative was recently discovered—about a group of idle bourgeois students known as the “Roppongi Tribe” (Roppongi zoku). Depicting the resignation and nihilism of the postwar generation in the years following the Anpo Treaty conflicts through a coming-of-age narrative, Yamagiwa offers sharp criticism of the prevalent characterizations of Japan's new youth offered by Nikkatsu's taiyozoku (“Sun Tribe”) films and the New Wave at large.
- Year: 1961
- Country: Japan
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- Studio: Sagawa Production
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- Director: Eizō Yamagiwa
- Cast: Kōji Matsubara, Mitsuko Sawamura, Terumi Hoshi, Takashi Fujiki, Yūko Kashiwagi, Namiji Namiura
