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Released
1963 · FILM

Youth of the Beast

Directed by
Runtime
92 min
Language
JA
ActionCrimeMystery
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

A mysterious stranger forces his way into two rival yakuza gangs, causing violent conflict in Tokyo’s underworld.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Akira SuzukiShot by Kazue NagatsukaScored by Hajime OkumuraDesigned by Yoshinaga Yoko O

Also known as

  • Jagd auf die Bestiede
  • Youth of the Beasten
  • La juventud de la bestiaes
  • La Jeunesse de la bêtefr
  • La giovinezza di una belva umanait

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