Flame at the Pier / Tears on the Lion’s Mane / Namida o shishi no tategami ni (1962)

Most of the streams of the Japanese "troubled youth" movie reach their peak in Tears on the Lion's Mane, the major Shinoda movie that Criterion doesn't have and is thus all but unknown in America. Young Sabu is an enforcer for a small shipping company, and we first see him running to the docks to …

Youth in Fury / Dry Lake / Kawaita mizuumi (1960)

Japan entered "the sixties" considerably earlier than other countries, with a radical opposition to governmental policies dating from the formal end of the Occupation in 1952. As with the sixties protest movements in France and the US, these were as often age based as politically motivated, with the most vocal and active opposition led by …