new "youth film'?

[David Desser]

I've been wondering if any critic or critical consensus, in Japanese or in
English, has arrived at a genre classification for something like the sweet
youth films typified (and perhaps begun?) by Yaguchi Shinobu with Waterboys
(2001).  I can think also of Yaguchi's Swing Girls, Yamashita's Linda Linda
Linda and Lee Sang-il's Hula Girls.  Are these, some based on true stories,
kind of antidotes to the semi-horror (or actual horror) films that are also
youth-oriented, from Suicide Club to Pulse (Kairo), etc?  And can anyone
tell me if there are other of these gentler films beyond those I've
mentioned?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

David Desser

 

 

 

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