Everything Goes Wrong (1960)

• Year: 1960
• Released: 08 Oct 1960
• Country: Japan
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054350/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/everything_goes_wrong
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: Japanese, English
• Genre: Action, Crime
• Runtime: 71 min
• Writer: Seiji Hoshikawa, Akira Ichijo
• Director: Seijun Suzuki
• Cast: Tamio Kawaji, Yoshiko Nezu, Sayuri Yoshinaga
• Keywords: street gang, juvenile delinquent, abortion, gang rape, rebellious youth,

6.9/10

Everything Goes Wrong Storyline

On the brink of adulthood, Jirô Sugita is an angry young man. He hangs around with a large group of similarly aged youth, and in the absence of knowing how he should act, he emulates the actions of those around him. As they revere money and understand the need for money to get what they want in life, Jirô begins to commit petty crimes, such as muggings. While a number of the girls are attracted to him, especially Toshimi Tani who secretly or not so secretly is in love with him, he treats girls in general poorly in considering them all whores. The two issues of money and considering females whores are strengthened when Etsuko Shimojô needs money for an abortion, she doing whatever to get that money except to tell her live-in “boyfriend”, the father Yasuo Ono, whose menial job is even insufficient for him to pay his tuition. Jirô even considers his widowed mother, Masayo Sugita, a whore, his father who was accidentally killed in being run over by a Japanese tank during WWII. While Masayo formerly was a geisha, Jirô negatively views her in light of the fact that she has accepted the assistance of married businessman Keigo Nambara, a military equipment engineer, since her widowhood. In the process, they have fallen in a sort of love with each other, while Jirô considers him the cause of his father’s death in being that military equipment supplier.

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Try a Little Kindness

Tamio Kawaji doesn’t like that his mother has been a married businessman’s mistress for fifteen years. He lives on the money, but it makes him miserable. He earns some money stealing cars, and his girlfriend, Yoshiko Nezu, sides with him. She tries to raise money for a friend who’s gotten pregnant, only she doesn’t want to bother the boy she is living with about an abortion. As the situation spirals out of control, the older couple tries to talk with the youngster, to explain things to him, but he doesn’t want to hear about it.

Seijun Suzuki’s movie about juvenile delinquency and the causes of it is sensationalistic, and offers no real solutions, only a beginning of one. Mostly, though, it’s about violence and anger and alienation.

A Coming-of-Age Film in Post-War Japan

This post-war Japanese film essentially revolves around a young man by the name of “Jiro Sugita” (Tamio Kawaji) who lives alone with his mother and hangs out with his friends who have formed a street gang of sorts. Within this gang is a girl named “Toshimi Tani” (Yoshiko Nezu) who is quite smitten with Jiro and believes that the reason he doesn’t return her affection is due to his overall shyness-and this only increases her resolve to be with him even more. What she doesn’t know is that Jiro is insanely troubled by the fact that his mother has been having an affair for ten years with a married man named “Keigo Nanbara” (Shinsuke Ashida) who also loves her but cannot bring himself to file for a divorce from his wife. As a result Jiro harbors an extreme disdain for all women and treats them accordingly. So when Toshimi finally breaks the ice with him and they end up sleeping together she isn’t quite prepared for what happens afterward. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this coming-of-age film had more than its fair share of personal dramas involving a number of other characters than those just mentioned. It also consisted of some overly-dramatic acting that is uniquely typical for many Japanese films of this type as well. That being said, while it may not appeal to all audiences, it wasn’t too bad for the most part and I have rated it accordingly. Slightly above average.

When Everything Goes Wrong goes so right

What a great, flowing, virtuoso bit of filmmaking. Effortless interlocking scenes moving one to the next. One character’s bit of drama bleeds seamlessly into another. This interlocking style is not originated in this film but many of the more recent films have popularized something that this film did so well 50 years before. There is an apparent joyous enthusiasm with which this film is made and, while the subject matter is at times very intense and not always satisfying, there is an infectious energy on display by a doubtlessly talented director.

Crash, Pulp Fiction and other similar recent films owe a bit of a debt to Everything Goes Wrong and fans of those should take particular interest in this one.

I went into it with no expectations as I knew nearly zero about it and at the time I am posting this review only 16 people have even voted for it. A criminally under-appreciated film and it made an immediate impression on me which has continued to grow to admiration. After seeing Tokyo Drifter, Branded to Kill, Take Aim at the Police Van, Everything Goes Wrong is my favorite film by Seijun Suzuki so far.

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