The End of Love (狂熱の果て) 63 years old

A leading postwar Japanese film critic and theorist who co-founded the seminal film magazine Eiga Hihyo (Film Criticism) in 1957, Eizo Yamagiwa made his directorial debut with this independent feature—long thought lost until a negative was recently discovered—about a group of idle bourgeois students known as the “Roppongi Tribe” (Roppongi zoku). Depicting the resignation and nihilism of the postwar generation in the years following the Anpo Treaty conflicts through a coming-of-age narrative, Yamagiwa offers sharp criticism of the prevalent characterizations of Japan's new youth offered by Nikkatsu's taiyozoku (“Sun Tribe”) films and the New Wave at large.

Credits

The End of Love Cast

Name Character
Akira Nakamura as Michi's father
Yûji Hori He was 39, 56 years old when he died
Takashi Fujiki He was 21, now 84 years old as Yoji Nakaoka
Akemi Nara as Makiko Kawamura
Fumiko Miyata as Nurse

The End of Love Crew

Name Department
Hikaru Hayashi as Original Music Composer. He was 30 (80) years old when He died Sound
The End of Love (63 years)

  • Release day: Wednesday, November 01, 1961
  • Runtime: 78 minutes