Hard Romanticker
2011 · 108 MIN · IMDB 5.9 · 313 VOTES · DIR. Su-yeon Gu
Overview
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…
Dialogue Timeline — 725 lines
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00:01:02 Wan' motherfucker'
00:05:21 Get off of me!
00:08:23 Either way, you're goin' inside a long time.
00:12:13 Did Tatsu do something?
00:15:26 Gimme your name.
00:18:30 That's enough!
00:23:31 Piss off.
00:25:56 Yeah, okay.
00:29:19 We're finally made men.
00:32:14 This is your mess. You'll have to clean it up.
00:35:23 Good to meet you.
00:38:38 My car. Use it whenever you want.
00:42:15 Are you Kaneko?
00:45:09 You know Gu?
00:47:59 Hafta get back to work. Bye.
00:54:36 Look at what finally crawled out of the woodwork.
00:57:18 I'll wait outside.
01:00:00 Lately he's really annoying me. It's all Women, women, women.
01:04:14 That feel good?
01:12:21 Huh?
01:16:12 I just... know her.
01:24:45 You wouldn't get it.
01:41:19 Stop!
20:00:00 Who's gonna pay it back?