Shonen
Boy
(c)Oshima Productions
(c)Oshima Productions
- Release Date
- July, 26th, 1969
- Running Time
- 97 min
- Genre
- Feature
- Color
- Color
- Screening Format
- -
- Screen Size
- Cinema Scope (1:2.35)
[ Directed by ]
[ Produced by ]
[ Cast ]
- ABE Tetsuo ── The boy
- WATANABE Fumio ── His father
- KOYAMA Akiko ── His stepmother
[ Staff ]
- TAMURA Takeshi ── Script
- YOSHIOKA Yasuhiro ── Cinematography
- SENGEN Seizo ── Cinematography
- HAYASHI Hikaru ── Music
- TODA Shigemasa ── Art Direction
[ Production Company ]
Sozosha, Art Theatre Guild
[ Distributor (Japan) ]
OSHIMA PRODUCTIONS
[ Story ]
A deadbeat father exploits his status as a veteran to force his son to feign being hit by cars in order to shake down the drivers for money. The film captures poignantly the boy's lonely plight as, following his father's orders, he repeatedly puts himself in harm's way while traveling across the country, resulting in a road movie that trades the genre's usual sense of freedom for stifling oppression. Based on a series of real-life events that made newspaper headlines, the film was Oshima's attempt to portray "the struggle of people who were forced to fight by corrupt means." The entire movie was shot on-location up and down the country as Oshima traced the footsteps of the family who served as inspiration for the story.
Taken from text originally written for National Film Archive of Japan screening program
Rearranged by NAKANISHI Kanako
Translated by Adam Sutherland
[ Film Festivals, Awards ]
1971 Valladolid International Film Festival, Golden Spike
[ Contact (International) ]
OSHIMA PRODUCTIONS LTD.
4F,Yamaguchikensetsu daini bldg., 5-4-11 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0052
tel: +81 3 3585 2700
E-mail: mail@oshima-pro.jp
https://www.oshima-pro.jp
