Hard Romanticker (2011)

Writerdirector Gu Suyeons new film draws on his own semiautobiographical account of growing up as a delinquent zainichi Korean Japaneseborn but of Korean ancestry in the seaside city of Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture a workingclass hellhole overflowing with sex and fury Day after day fictional Gu finds fresh foes and makes the local hoodlums want to kick his ass While working multiple deadend parttime jobs he cruises around town on his scooter in search of gangland trouble leaping across rooftops with irate hordes of punks in hot pursuit running off with a fetching belle in a sailor suit rescuing a schoolgirl from being gangraped at a gluesniffing orgy