, also known as ''Juvenile Jungle'', is a 1956 Japanese Sun Tribe film directed by Kō Nakahira. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by

Shintaro Ishihara was a Japanese politician and writer, who served as the Governor of Tokyo Metropolis, Governor of Tokyo from 1999 to 2012. Being the former leader of the Far-right politics, radical right Sunrise Party, later merged with Toru Hashimoto's Japan ...

, the older brother of cast member Yujiro Ishihara,Marc Moha
"Crazed Fruit: The Criterion Collection"
/ref> and is about two brothers who fall in love with the same woman and the resulting conflict. The film was controversial upon release because of its depiction of Japanese youth. It later was known as a foundational work of the Sun Tribe genre.

Cast

Masahiko Tsugawa , born Masahiko Katō (加藤雅彦 ''Katō Masahiko''; January 2, 1940 – August 4, 2018) was a Japanese actor and director. Career Tsugawa was born January 2, 1940, in Kyoto, Japan. After acting as a child, he made his major debut at 16 in t ...

– Haruji * Yujiro Ishihara – Natsuhisa * Mie Kitahara – Eri * Harold Conway – Eri's husband *

Masumi Okada was a French-born Japanese actor, ''tarento'', and film producer. Early life Okada was born in Nice, France, to a Japanese father and a Danish mother. His father, Minoru Okada, was an artist and his mother, Ingeborg Sevaldsen, was the siste ...

– Frank *

– Ishihara

References

External links

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''Heat Stroke: Crazed Fruit and Japanese Cinema’s Season in the Sun''
an essay by Chuck Stephens at the

Criterion Collection The Criterion Collection, Inc. (or simply Criterion) is an American home-video distribution company that focuses on licensing, restoring and distributing "important classic and contemporary films". A "sister company" of arthouse film distributo ...

''Crazed Fruit: Imagining a New Japan—The Taiyozoku Films''
an essay by Michael Raine at the

1956 films 1956 drama films Japanese erotic drama films Films based on Japanese novels 1950s Japanese-language films Shintaro Ishihara Nikkatsu films Films scored by Masaru Sato 1950s Japanese films Japanese black-and-white films {{erotic-film-stub