Fighting Elegy

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.

• youth gang
• based on memoir or autobiography
• sexual repression
• roman catholic church
• young love
• masculinity
• piano
• japanese new wave
• student
• shōwa era (1926-89)
• violence
• the roots of violence