Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
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Director Kaneto Shindo Music director Hikaru Hayashi Country Japan | 7/10 IMDb Genre Drama Duration Language Japanese | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 31 October 1970 (1970-10-31) Writer Shozo Matsuda, Kaneto Shindo Screenplay Kaneto Shindo, Shozo Matsuda Cast Daijiro Harada (Michio Yamada), Nobuko Otowa (Take Yamada), Daigo Kusano (Hanjiro Yamada), Keiko Torii (Sakie Hayashi), Kei Satô , Kiwako Taichi Similar movies Mission: Impossible II , Surveillance , All the Boys Love Mandy Lane , Megamind , Child 44 , The Frozen Ground | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Live Today, Die Tomorrow! (Japanese: Hadaka no jukyusai) is a 1970 Japanese drama film based on the true story of Norio Nagayama. It was directed by Kaneto Shindo based on his own screenplay, and starred Daijiro Harada and Nobuko Otowa.
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Plot
Michio Yamada (Daijiro Harada), a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department store as part of a government programme. He takes a gun from a house on an American base and uses it to kill several people.
The scene changes to Yamada's childhood. Yamada is born the child of a reprobate and a weak-willed woman (Nobuko Otowa). As a boy Yamada experiences poverty and the rape of his sister at first hand.
Cast
Release
Live Today, Die Tomorrow! was released in Japan on October 31, 1970 where it was distributed by Toho.
Reception
The film won the Golden Prize at the 7th Moscow International Film Festival in 1971.
References
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