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Hard Romanticker

6.0(3)20111h 48m1

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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Status
Released
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Language
Japanese

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Director

Su-yeon Gu

Writers

Su-yeon Gu

Produced in

Japan

Where to watch

Availability for United States. Provided by JustWatch through the TMDB API.

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Still from Hard Romanticker

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Release dates

  • 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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  • B

    BiankaMalburg

    5/4/2025

    4/10

    It was technically a movie and Gu is definitely an asshole and a loser.

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