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Cruel Story of Youth

Catherine Russell offers a fan-tas-tic reading of this movie in her work Narrative Mortality: death, closure and New Wave cinemas. Be sure to check out the chapter on Oshima (The limits of nationhood) starting on page 105, I loved it to bits! http://books.google.com/books?id=H-yjC6SOFwMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=narrative+mortality&hl=nl&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false