Fighting Elegy

Fighting Elegy (1966)

けんかえれじい

Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually, becomes involved with the radical Kita Ikki group.

Date of release
1966-11-09
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (39)
Runtime
1h 26m
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Director
Seijun Suzuki

Casting

Interesting facts

Fighting Elegy , also titled Elegy to Violence and The Born Fighter, is a 1966 Japanese drama film directed by Seijun Suzuki. It is based on the novel Kenka erejii by Takashi Suzuki.

Production

Takashi Suzuki's novel was adapted by filmmaker Kaneto Shindō. During filming, Suzuki took many liberties with Shindō's script, adding scenes such as Nanbu's meeting with Ikki Kita and the violation of Michiko.

The events of the film cover only the first half of the novel on which it was based. Suzuki had planned and co-written the script for a sequel, in which Nanbu joins the army and dies in battle in China, but the project was cancelled after Suzuki was fired by Nikkatsu after his next film Branded to Kill.

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