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Young Thugs: Nostalgia
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Young Thugs: Nostalgia

1998-09-26 · 94 min · ★ 6.4

Drama · Action · Comedy

Nostalgia is Takashi Miike’s favorite film of his considerable body of work. Including biographical elements, Nostalgia centers around the home and school of a young boy, whose family mix the violent and dysfunctional with the comic and the loveable. Though containing elements of the sudden and shocking brutality that many associate with this director, Young Thugs – Nostalgia is more concerned with a child’s moment of leaving the internalized world of fantasy, and passing on eagerly to the next stage of life. A wonderful, touching, startling vision that is uniquely Miike’s.

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Directors
Takashi Miike
Production companies
MMI, Marubeni, Sedic, Shochiku, Yoshimoto Kogyo
Countries
Japan
Status
Released

Top Cast

Naoto TakenakaNaoto TakenakaRiichi's father
Yuki NagataRiichi
Saki TakaokaSaki TakaokaMiss Itô
Toshikazu Nakaba
Akihiro ShimizuAkihiro ShimizuNakamura
Yoshinori YasudaSada
Setsuko KarasumaSetsuko KarasumaRiichi's mother
Takeshi CaesarTakeshi CaesarRiichi's uncle
Matsunosuke ShofukuteiRiichi's grandfather

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