THE BOY WHO CAME BACK

Rarely seen outside of Japan, this Nikkatsu youth movie (seishun eiga) charts the evolving style of director Seijun Suzuki—the B-movie maverick best known for the cult classics TOKYO DRIFTER and BRANDED TO KILL. THE BOY WHO CAME BACK marks the first appearances of “Nikkatsu Diamond Guys” and regular Suzuki collaborators Akira Kobayashi and Jo Shishido, with Kobayashi cast as the hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past.