Fighting Elegy

Fighting Elegy , Kenka erejii? is a 1966 Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki. Filmmaker Kaneto Shind adapted the script from the novel by Takashi Suzuki. The film has also screened under the titles Violence Elegy, Elegy to Violence, Elegy for a Quarrel and The Born Fighter at various film festivals and retrospectives.

Taken under the wing of Turtle Yusuke Kawazu, Nanbu is taught how to fight through an elaborate training regimen. He then joins a school gang, the OSMS. A conflict between gang leader Takuan Mitsuo Kataoka and Turtle ensues concluding with Nanbus usurpation of OSMS leadership. Setting a more aggressive manifesto of actively breaking all school rules, and avoiding girls entirely, he has a runin with the school drill sergeant and is suspended. Turtle speaks to the school administration on Nanbus behalf resulting in both students fleeing Okayama, leaving Michiko behind.Now living in the Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima with his aunt and uncle Nanbu reenlists in school but is repulsed by his classmates weakness. He forms a new group and heightened conflicts commence with a local gang. Michiko visits to say goodbye to Nanbu and tell him that she has decided to join a convent as she is unable to bear children. She is later waylaid by marching soldiers. Distraught to new heights, Nanbu spots a poster for real life radical, political activist, Ikki Kita Hiroshi Midorigawa, who he had met briefly in a tea house, and, reinvigorated, marches on to join in the events of Niniroku jiken. ........

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