Age of Storms

Wu Port, formerly an imperial army military port, became a living hell for shipyard workers after the war. Under the dual torment of capitalist exploitation and boring life, restless young lives plunge into the whirlpool of violence, delaying their growth, and looking for temporary anesthesia in fighting, gambling, and alcoholism all day long. Through the eyes of a foreman, Yoshida Yoshige criticizes the unreasonable social reality in a way that welcomes and rejects it, and is regarded as one of the masterpieces of the Japanese New Wave. Miko Kaoyama plays an innocent tavern waitress who sympathizes with the workers but is brutally raped. Positive and negative energies compete with each other in the great era. Can there be a place beyond right and wrong, right and wrong? In the farewell scene at the train station at the end of the film, Yoshida Yoshige made a left-wing choice between home and society. One of the key films ushering in the Shochiku New Wave era, this raw tale of migrant laborers at a post-war naval base simmers with youthful outrage. Responsible shipyard worker Shima