Crazy Fruit

Crazy Fruit
Crazy Fruit
Japanese name
Kanji	狂くるった果実かじつ
Directed by	Kichitaro Negishi
Based on	Kurutta kajitsu; by Shintaro Ishihara
Starring	Yūji Honma; Yuki Ninagawa
Cinematography	Minoru Yoneda
Edited by	Akimasa Kawashima
Production; company	Nikkatsu
Release date	April 24, 1981;
Running time	85 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Crazy Fruit aka Crazed Fruit (狂くるった果実かじつ, Kurutta kajitsu) is a 1981 Japanese film in Nikkatsu's Roman porno series, directed by Kichitaro Negishi. Both this film and the earlier (1956) version by Nikkatsu, Crazed Fruit, were based on a novel of the same name by Shintaro Ishihara.^[1]

Plot

A working class young man, Tetsuo, who distrusts all rich people, falls in love with a girl, Chika, from an affluent family. He has a difficult time, but love survives despite the problems.^[2]

Cast

Yūji Honma (本間ほんま優二ゆうじ) as Tetsuo
Yuki Ninagawa as Chika
Eiko Nagashima as Harue
Eiji Okada as Tono, Chika's step father
Nobutaka Masutomi (益えき富とみ信孝のぶたか) as Osawa, Harue's husband
Kinuko Obata (小畠おばた絹子きぬこ) as Tetsuo's mother

Critical appraisal

The Weissers call the plot "a sadly contrived story" and award it two and a half stars out of four, but laud Yūji Honma's "intense performance" which made the film a major hit for the Nikkatsu studio.^[2]

Availability

Crazy Fruit was released as a DVD by Uplink (アップリンク) on May 23, 2003.^[3]

Awards and nominations

3rd Yokohama Film Festival^[4]

Won: Best Director - Kichitaro Negishi

References

^ Sharp, Jasper (2008). Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema. Guildford: FAB Press. p. 128. ISBN 978-1-903254-54-7.
^ ^a ^b Weisser, Thomas; Yuko Mihara Weisser (1998). Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications. p. 93. ISBN 1-889288-52-7.
^ アップリンクよりＤＶＤリリース (in Japanese). P.G. Web Site. Archived from the original on 2012-08-05. Retrieved 2011-10-27.
^ 第だい３回かいヨコハマ映画えいが祭さい１９８１年ねん日本にっぽん映画えいが個人こじん賞しょう (in Japanese). Yokohama Film Festival. Archived from the original on 2016-09-13. Retrieved 2010-01-10.

External links

Crazy Fruit at IMDb
Crazy Fruit at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)

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[1] Sharp, Jasper (2008). Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema. Guildford: FAB Press. p. 128. ISBN 978-1-903254-54-7.

[weisser93-2] Weisser, Thomas; Yuko Mihara Weisser (1998). Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications. p. 93. ISBN 1-889288-52-7.

[3] アップリンクよりＤＶＤリリース (in Japanese). P.G. Web Site. Archived from the original on 2012-08-05. Retrieved 2011-10-27.

[4] 第だい３回かいヨコハマ映画えいが祭さい１９８１年ねん日本にっぽん映画えいが個人こじん賞しょう (in Japanese). Yokohama Film Festival. Archived from the original on 2016-09-13. Retrieved 2010-01-10.

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Crazy Fruit

Japanese name
Kanji	狂くるった果実かじつ

Directed by	Kichitaro Negishi
Based on	Kurutta kajitsu by Shintaro Ishihara
Starring	Yūji Honma Yuki Ninagawa
Cinematography	Minoru Yoneda
Edited by	Akimasa Kawashima
Production company	Nikkatsu
Release date	April 24, 1981 (1981-04-24)
Running time	85 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese