Su-yeon Gu

Shiwasu's mother left their home when Shiwasu was a little girl. Shiwasu does not understand why. She is a woman now and working at a Shinto shrine as a shrine maiden under her father who is a priest. She is listless until she finds a little boy alone on the shrine's grounds. The boy's mother shows up and retrieves her son a couple of days later. That is not the end of it however. The boy is back soon and has marks and bruises on his body. In the meantime, there was petty theft going on.

In 1940, Masaaki Takaoka works as a teacher in the agricultural division at a youth training institute. Although Japan’s defeat seems imminent, all of Masaaki’s students are drafted in a futile last-ditch effort. In an attempt to give the young men some hope, he makes everyone promise that they will all meet again under the cherry blossoms upon their safe return. Consumed by sadness over the fate of his students, Masaaki devotes the next 30 years of his life to develop a new species of cherry blossoms that could thrive in any climate in remembrance of his students.

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…

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…

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…

人気テレビ番組「ヤキニクバトルロワイヤル」で赤肉料理で連戦連勝を続ける、巨大焼肉チェーン店「トラ王」の御曹司トラオ。「トラ王」もヤキニクバトルロワイヤルでのトラオ人気で全国制覇を目論むが、唯一北九州市だけ全く売り上げが伸びない。その理由は、焼肉の達人韓老人の下、修行に励むタツジと、韓老人の孫で看板娘のヨリが切り盛りする白肉（ホルモン焼き）の店「プルコギ食堂」が絶大な人気を誇っているため。北九州地区を制覇するべく、あの手この手でプルコギ食堂をつぶしにかかるトラ王。妨害を受けても店の人気は衰えなかったが、そんなさ中、韓老人が亡くなる。タツジは「トラ王」を叩き潰すため、韓老人直伝のコプチャンをもって「ヤキニクバトルロワイヤル」に出演、勝利をめざす。

人気テレビ番組「ヤキニクバトルロワイヤル」で赤肉料理で連戦連勝を続ける、巨大焼肉チェーン店「トラ王」の御曹司トラオ。「トラ王」もヤキニクバトルロワイヤルでのトラオ人気で全国制覇を目論むが、唯一北九州市だけ全く売り上げが伸びない。その理由は、焼肉の達人韓老人の下、修行に励むタツジと、韓老人の孫で看板娘のヨリが切り盛りする白肉（ホルモン焼き）の店「プルコギ食堂」が絶大な人気を誇っているため。北九州地区を制覇するべく、あの手この手でプルコギ食堂をつぶしにかかるトラ王。妨害を受けても店の人気は衰えなかったが、そんなさ中、韓老人が亡くなる。タツジは「トラ王」を叩き潰すため、韓老人直伝のコプチャンをもって「ヤキニクバトルロワイヤル」に出演、勝利をめざす。

カネシロヒデノリは在日韓国人の高校生。小さい頃からいじめられっ子だったヒデノリは、さしたる目的も持てず無為な毎日を過ごしていた。ある日、彼の姉ナナコが手首を切って自殺した。ヒデノリは姉に一度でいいから祖国を見せてやりたいと無謀な計画を思い立つ。ひょんなことから知り合った強迫性障害で盗癖のあるエキセントリックな少女、由美と、渋谷でブラブラしている24歳のチーマー、タローがその計画に加わる。彼らは亡くなったナナコの遺体を病院の霊安室から盗み出すと、白いオンボロマークIIに乗り込みひたすら西を目指して走り始めるのだった。

カネシロヒデノリは在日韓国人の高校生。小さい頃からいじめられっ子だったヒデノリは、さしたる目的も持てず無為な毎日を過ごしていた。ある日、彼の姉ナナコが手首を切って自殺した。ヒデノリは姉に一度でいいから祖国を見せてやりたいと無謀な計画を思い立つ。ひょんなことから知り合った強迫性障害で盗癖のあるエキセントリックな少女、由美と、渋谷でブラブラしている24歳のチーマー、タローがその計画に加わる。彼らは亡くなったナナコの遺体を病院の霊安室から盗み出すと、白いオンボロマークIIに乗り込みひたすら西を目指して走り始めるのだった。