The End of Love
(Kyonetsu no Hate)
Screening on Film
Directed by Eizo Yamagiwa.
With Terumi Hoshi, Koji Matsubara, Namiji Matsuura.
Japan, 1961, 35mm, black & white, 78 min.
Japanese with English subtitles.
Print source: National Film Archive of Japan
With Terumi Hoshi, Koji Matsubara, Namiji Matsuura.
Japan, 1961, 35mm, black & white, 78 min.
Japanese with English subtitles.
Print source: National Film Archive of Japan
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 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.