Film

The End of Love

1961 · 1h 18m

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.

Kōji Matsubara

Kenji Nomura

Mitsuko Sawamura

Yuri

Terumi Hoshi

Michi Makino

Takashi Fujiki

Yoji Nakaoka

Yūko Kashiwagi

Akemi

Namiji Namiura

Noriko

Harue Tone

Michi's mother

Fumiko Miyata

Nurse

Masami Akimoto

Akiko

Akira Nakamura

Michi's father

Yoji Naruto

Hiroshi Inoue

Singer

Akemi Nara

Makiko Kawamura

Yūji Hori

• Eizō YamagiwaDirector
• Akira SagawaExecutive Producer
• Kiminao OkadaDirector of Photography
• Hikaru HayashiOriginal Music Composer

Release date

November 1, 1961

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 18m