The Warped Ones

1960 [JAPANESE]

Action / Crime / Drama

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 73% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 73% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.9/10 10 1142 1.1K

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Plot summary

A juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and immediately embarks on a rampage of untethered anger, most of it directed at the girlfriend of the journalist who helped send him up.

Director

Koreyoshi Kurahara Photo
Koreyoshi Kurahara

Top cast

Chigusa Takayama Photo
Chigusa Takayama as Yuki's mother
Yôko Kosono Photo
Yôko Kosono as Woman in atelier
Hiroyuki Nagato Photo
Hiroyuki Nagato as Kashiwagi
Eiji Gô Photo
Eiji Gô as Masaru
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694.06 MB
1280*544
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles jp  
23.976 fps
1 hr 15 min
Seeds ...
1.26 GB
1920*816
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles jp  
23.976 fps
1 hr 15 min
Seeds 8

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Tin_ear 7 / 10

A Japanese Juvenile Delinquency Tale

The social situation in Rebel Without a Cause looks pretty healthy in comparison to Akira's life in this film. Make no mistake, the director probably didn't want you to find this guy empathetic or romantic regardless of his ingenuity, optimism, or opinions on abstract expressionism. He isn't so much a character with an arc as a force of nature motivating others, a plot device.Oddly enough, The Warped Ones is really a conservative film even if it doesn't realize it, warning of the breakdown of the family unit, the failure of the reform system, the rise of gang violence, and the perils of Western culture eroding traditional Japanese values. Everyone and everything that comes into contact with the sneering, jazz-deranged lunatic tainted or perverted. Akira merely the flea carrying the plague virus. Gotta give the film credit for not copping out at the end.
Reviewed by RanchoTuVu 8 / 10

disassociated

A seemingly plot less film driven by relentless shifts in locales in and around Tokyo about an anti-social criminal, his accomplice, who's a little more sociable, and their girlfriend, a prostitute, who, as part of the trio, attracts men with money to rob. The camera work and the running jazz soundtrack add to the overall disassociated sense that makes this similar to 60's New Wave films. It all seems to come together as the film progresses, however. So there is a sense of satisfaction after all if you require a plot. But the impulsive characters and the wild camera that accompanies them are what characterize the film as a bit of a classic.
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