Young Thugs: Nostalgia
Nostalgia is Takashi Miike’s favorite film of his considerable body of work. Including biographical elements, Nostalgia centers around the home and school of a young boy, whose family mix the violent and dysfunctional with the comic and the loveable. Though containing elements of the sudden and shocking brutality that many associate with this director, Young Thugs – Nostalgia is more concerned with a child’s moment of leaving the internalized world of fantasy, and passing on eagerly to the next stage of life. A wonderful, touching, startling vision that is uniquely Miike’s.
Cast
Naoto Takenaka
as Riichi's father
Yuki Nagata
as Riichi
Saki Takaoka
as Miss Itô
Toshikazu Nakaba
as
Akihiro Shimizu
as Nakamura
Yoshinori Yasuda
as Sada
Setsuko Karasuma
as Riichi's mother
Takeshi Caesar
as Riichi's uncle
Matsunosuke Shofukutei
as Riichi's grandfather
