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Crazed Fruit (1956) [The Criterion Collection #295] [Re-UP]

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Date: 26 Mar 2015 18:26:00
Crazed Fruit (1956) [The Criterion Collection #295] [Re-UP]

Crazed Fruit (1956)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | Cover | 01:25:55 | 6,01 Gb
Audio: Japanese AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama | The Criterion Collection #295

Director: Kô Nakahira
Stars: Masahiko Tsugawa, Yûjirô Ishihara, Mie Kitahara

Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking, in this seminal Sun Tribe (taiyozoku) film from director Kô Nakahira. Adapted from the controversial novel by Shintarô Ishihara, and critically savaged for its lurid portrayal of the postwar sexual revolution among Japan’s young and privileged, Crazed Fruit is an anarchic outcry against tradition and the older generation.

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This juicy unsentimental drama was the auspicious debut film for celebrated Japanese filmmaker Ko Nakahira ("The Hunter's Diary"/"Only on Mondays"/"A Soul to Devils"). It was made by unknowns and completed in seventeen days on a low-budget. The word taiyozoku (Sun Tribe) referred to a postwar generation that shifted from traditional to modern, and was later a term also used by the cinema. It was coined to describe the rich, bored, and mean-spirited characters populating writer Shintaro Ishihara’s novel Seasons of the Sun and his other books. This is the film that heralded in that new age of a sexier Japanese cinema, that offered teen films that were similar to the racier teen generation gap rebel ones in vogue in America but nevertheless it remained distinctly Japanese. Because of the film's popularity in Japan, Shintaro Ishihara soon became a right-wing politician and was elected mayor of Tokyo.

Crazed Fruit (1956) [The Criterion Collection #295] [Re-UP]

Privileged bourgeois teenage brothers, the younger virgin Haruji (Masahiko Tsugawa) and the older hedonistic brother Natsuhisa (Yujiro Ishihara, the author's younger brother and Japan's answer to James Dean), take advantage of their absentee parents providing no guidance and leisurely spend their summer holiday along the Zushi coast, just outside of Tokyo, where their parents reside. They ride their motor boat, water ski and hang out with Natsuhisa's dissolute, narcissistic, bored and disillusioned teen friends and their arrogant rich boy Eurasian leader Frank (Masumi Okada). They chase girls, ride in their sports cars, act rude in public, go clubbing, drink and gamble. Natsuhisa proudly states that "Boredom is our credo."

Crazed Fruit (1956) [The Criterion Collection #295] [Re-UP]

One look while at the railroad station at a dream girl passenger, is all it takes for the intense Haruji to become smitten with the attractive mystery girl Eri (Mie Kitahara). It never dawns on him that she's older and experienced, as they go out on a number of innocent dates and both fall in love. But the older brother senses Eri's not a virgin and snooping around discovers she's twenty and married to a middle-aged American businessman (Harold Conway). Natsuhisa becomes jealous and betrays little brother, and forces himself on Eri and blackmails her into putting out for him so he won't rat her out to his brother. But Eri has a thing for Haruji that seems real and craves his innocence, feeling she's always gone out with the aggressive Natsuhisa types and watched her youth pass by leaving her jaded. It all leads to a day of reckoning when Eri is left no choice but to choose between the boy who blindly loves her, the boy who lusts after her and won't take no for an answer, and her clueless American businessman husband.

Crazed Fruit (1956) [The Criterion Collection #295] [Re-UP]

Crazed Fruit is a delicious treat, as a jewel of a time capsule film that captures a lost era but fails to shock now–it seems more like a cautionary morality play. Nevertheless it's a trailblazing work in the Japanese Sun Tribe (the troubled kids bathe in the sun) subgenre, and an essential, but now forgotten, film for understanding modern postwar Japan and how it was changing from its traditional roots so rapidly it alarmed many in the public. It's also better filmed, better musically scored with a snazzy combo of jazz, rock and Hawaiian riffs by Masaru Sato and Toru Takemitsu, and is more perceptive than most European and American youth films about relationships.
Dennis Schwartz: "Ozus' World Movie Reviews"
Crazed Fruit (1956) [The Criterion Collection #295] [Re-UP]

Crazed Fruit was directed by Ko Nakahira, a contract director at the Nikkatsu studio who was all of 30 at the time and had only one other feature film under his belt. Filled with imagery borrowed from the burgeoning French nouvelle vague, he turned Crazed Fruit into an aesthetically exhilarating experiment, rather than the routine program picture the studio probably envisioned (curiously, Nakahira would go on to a prolific, but hardly profound film career). With its shock cuts, extreme close-ups, associative imagery, and a willfully salacious score that mixes jazz and Hawaiian music with virtuous aplomb, Crazed Fruit was like nothing anyone in Japan had seen before, at least from one their own. If the film doesn’t seem quite so groundbreaking today, it is only because its style and themes have been driven into the ground by countless others, most of which fail to live up to Crazed Fruit’s heady mixture of sex, restlessness, and good ol’ fashioned teenage rage.
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Crazed Fruit (1956) [The Criterion Collection #295] [Re-UP]

Ko Nakahira's Crazed Fruit is, to put it mildly, an immensely welcome addition to the Criterion roster. It is uniquely modernist, impressionistically rendered, sensual in its physicality, and absolutely unlike anything to precede it in Japanese cinema. To put it bluntly, Ko's film is as significant a break from aesthetic (and moral) traditions as Godard's Breathless would prove to be two years later. The story – nominally an attempt to cash in on the "sun tribe" fashion, whereby children of the wealthy would wile away their summers sun bathing and boating (an unthinkable luxury before the 1950s) – follows the travails of two selfish and licentious brothers whose love of the same girl yields to hyperbolic tragedy of epic proportions. Whether the ending is meant as a conservative suggestion of the moral repercussions precipitated by the making idle of one's hands, or something more bleakly Sartrean, is up to interpretation. What is clear is that none who see it shall ever forget. An epochal masterpiece, based on a book by the current mayor of Tokyo!
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Crazed Fruit (1956) [The Criterion Collection #295] [Re-UP]
Crazed Fruit (1956) [The Criterion Collection #295] [Re-UP]

Special Features:
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- Audio commentary by renowned Japanese-film scholar Donald Richie
- Theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation

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