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THINK AGAIN, JUNPEI

JUNPEI, KANGAE NAOSE

By Toshiyuki MORIOKA

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Drama - Completed 2018

A nouvelle, small-time yakuza, coming-of-age-story, based on the novel of the Naoki Award winning novelist, Hideo Okuda.

Montreal World Film Festival 2018

World Greats Section

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- JAPAN
- Languages
- JAPANESE
- Duration
- 95 mn
- Director(s)
- Toshiyuki MORIOKA
- Writer(s)
- Hideo OKUDA
- Cast
- Shuhei NOMURA, Yurina YANAGI , Katsuya MAIGUMA, Amane OKAYAMA, Gaku SANO
- Synopsis
- Junpei Sakamoto, 21, is a good-natured, bottom-rung foot soldier in a yakuza syndicate that claims the Kabukicho entertainment district near Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station as its territory. He can be quick to pick a fight, but he’s good-looking, has a soft spot for women, and enjoys a good following around the neighborhood. When the boss orders him to be a hitman to kill one of the top brass of a rival group, Junpei takes it as chance to prove himself. The boss hands him some money and has given him three full days of free time before the mission. Junpei go out to enjoy himself and meets a variety of different characters in Kabukicho.
  The tree days fly by as Jumpei lives it up in a hotel suite with a girl, drinking with his yakuza buddies; befriended by a former college professor who got caught trying to walkout on his bill; sees his mother for the first time in two years…What path does he choose to follow after these many meetings and partings???