Remake Bits: John Woo Redoes Japanese New Wave Classic 'Youth of the Beast,' Plus

Typically, it's the French New Wave that gets all the news, but Japan had its own New Wave in the '60s, and one of the key players, whether he would have said as much or not, was Suzuki Seijun. The director worked for Nikkatsu studios, and in the '60s he started to crank out studio films that grew weirder with each release. One of the formative films in that period was Youth of the Beast, starring the chipmunk-cheeked ...

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