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.
00:12:09 Don't play dumb now.
00:15:22 Oh, big man! Never heard of him.
00:18:20 Stop it!
00:23:23 It's Kaneko!
00:25:40 Guess I am!
00:29:08 Whatever. They just started goin' at it.
00:31:47 Say somethin' now, fucker.
00:35:09 Yeah.
00:38:23 Natsuko and Aoi.
00:41:46 You're 0omin'. I know a tiny little place.
00:44:44 I was at my part-time job.
00:47:30 Yeah. Young people should study.
00:52:23 my mom...
00:56:29 You'll turn informant?
00:59:26 It might build some character.
01:02:38 From Shoji?
01:10:44 Hate 'em all...
01:15:33 for pimping out high school girls?
01:22:36 Sit up.
01:34:25 You really are crazy. You're nuts.
01:45:14 in Shimonoseki and Kokura.