Nagisa Ōshima

In Osaka’s slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the trading of ID cards and blood.

A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitchhiking to rob middle-class men.

Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student ...