

Hard Romanticker
Writer-director Gu Su-yeon's new film draws on his own semiautobiographical account of growing up as a delinquent zainichi Korean (Japanese-born, but of Korean ancestry) in the seaside city of Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture, a working-class 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 dead-end part-time 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 gang-raped at a glue-sniffing orgy…
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- Japanese
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United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG-1312 Nov 2011
JapanJP
- Theatrical26 Nov 2011
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Hard Romanticker was released on 12 November 2011.
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BiankaMalburg
5/4/2025
It was technically a movie and Gu is definitely an asshole and a loser.
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