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Good for Nothing depicts a new moral amongst the youth, estranged from the previous generation that had brought about the post-war economic miracle. Bored middle-class youngsters start robbing just for fun, but end up in a deadly game of crime and betrayal. Based on Yoshida’s own original script, this stylistically assured and striking debut also introduces distinct elements of Yoshida’s style, such as a non-conventional mise-en-scene and fluid, expressive camera movement.

Confronted by the onslaught of television, in 1960 the major film production company Shochiku all of a sudden gave young assistant directors the opportunity to make their own films in an attempt to reach a new and young audience. The result was the Shochiku Nouvelle Vague, a group of films focused, for the most part, on frustrated juvenile delinquents, by elite university graduates brimming with energy and a view of life and Japanese society that was completely at odds with Shochiku’s emphasis on harmony. .

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