An Adolescent

Name: An Adolescent
Genre: Drama
Released: September 30, 2005
Duration: 132 min
Rating: 54

2005

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Indican Pictures | Release Date: September 30, 2005

Summary: Japanese character actor Eiji Okuda makes his directorial debut with this romantic drama adapted from a book by Mikihiko Renjyo.

Director: Eiji Okuda

Genre(s): Drama

Runtime: 132 min

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G. Allen Johnson

An interesting film, and while it is not entirely successful (and at times most puzzling), it achieves a certain poignancy. Read full review

Mark Olsen

Okuda creates that slightly surreal atmosphere of ghost-town emptiness that will be familiar to fans of Takeshi Miike, but he infuses it with a romantic's sense of deep yearning. Read full review

Drew Tillman

Although the movie drags, Okuda (who also directed) makes for a gloriously bad lieutenant, while Ozawa is enjoyably discomfiting in her unblushing carnality. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

Suicide, child molestation, corruption, insanity and the faintest implication of incest are wound around the film's suggestion that the cure for modern-day alienation and anomie lies in embracing traditional Japanese culture, like ritual tattooing. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

Okuda's debut behind the camera, Shoujyo, is a dirty old man's delight: schoolgirls galore in short skirts or, in Yoko's case, nothing at all. That may be enough for some viewers, but not for those who insist on a story that gives substance to its characters. Read full review

Tasha Robinson

The problem is that both as a director and as an actor, Okuda never makes a particularly convincing case either for sex or for deeper commitment as a road away from the abyss. Read full review

Lawrence Van Gelder

The film, at least 20 minutes too long, has too many competing story lines to succeed as more than an oddball mood piece. Read full review

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