10 Great Japanese Teen Films

"In the postwar explosion of cinema-going, when a massive increase in screens and releases gave way to a fragmentation of audiences and a targeted specialisation in products for specific viewing sectors, it was Japan's oldest studio, Nikkatsu, that ironically proved its youngest at heart. After a 12-year dormancy due to the war, it sprang back into action and rapidly found its feet, with its double whammy of Season of the Sun and Crazed Fruit in 1956 kicking off the short-lived 'Sun Tribe' (taiyozoku) wave of films aimed for and about a new postwar generation of unruly baby-boomers.

It's through this taiyozoku prism that we look at a selection of the country's greatest works capturing those thrilling days of innocence and experience across different generations of teens."

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