new "youth film'?

[Jerry Turner]

Film genres or themes that are largely specific to a single country are
always interesting to me.

Lately, I've watched a lot of films, some that could be considered pink
films, that involve two young people in their teens or early twenties living
in the same building developing a relationship or at least an extreme
infatuation with one another; movies like Ryoko Yoshida's *Love Twisted*,
Hiroki's *Tokyo Trash Baby*, Sato Toshiki's suprisingly good pink film *Empty
Room*. All of these involve a female infatuated with a male that lives down
the hall or next door. There are other films I've watched that have this
similar plot/theme, but their names escape me.

As for seishun eiga (youth films), filmmaker Hiroshi Ishikawa's two films
fit in that genre, especially *Su-ki-da*. I think he's a great, and largely
ignored filmmaker, perhaps because of his tv commerical background.

For more youth films, just run down Aoi Miyazaki's filmography. Even if the
film itself doesn't fit the genre perfectly, it's likely her character does;
films such as the dreadful* Loved Gun* that I turned off after about an hour
last night. Even Aoi's puppy dog face couldn't save that one.
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