Big Bang Love, Juvenile A

Feb 11, 2006

1h 25m

★ 6.5

A visually stylish tale of two male prisoners bonded by emotion, love and murder.

Overview

An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility. More an exercise in style than storytelling, the story follows two detectives trying to uncover the case. Homosexual tension and explosive violence drives the story which delivers some weird and fascinating visuals.

Genres

Fantasy

Drama

Production Companies

Shochiku

Maki Production

Excellent Film

Eisei Gekijo

Big Bang Love, Juvenile A Trailers

Cast

Jun Ariyoshi

Ryuhei Matsuda

Shiro Kazuki

Masanobu Ando

Sumio Yukimura

Shunsuke Kubozuka

Makoto Tsuchiya

Kiyohiko Shibukawa

Jo Kanamori

Assistant to the Detective

Ken'ichi Endô

Renji Ishibashi

Warden Tsuchiya

Ryo Ishibashi

Prisoner 'A'

Soji Arai

Shirô Kazuki

Prison Warden

Ken Mitsuishi

Deranged Prisoner

Jai West

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