The End of Love

A leading postwar Japanese film critic and theorist who cofounded the seminal film magazine Eiga Hihyo Film Criticism in 1957 Eizo Yamagiwa made his directorial debut with this independent featurelong thought lost until a negative was recently discoveredabout 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 comingofage narrative Yamagiwa offers sharp criticism of the prevalent characterizations of Japans new youth offered by Nikkatsus taiyozoku Sun Tribe films and the New Wave at large