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Boy(Movie, 1969)

Original title: "少年" (Japanese/JA)

1h 38min | Genres: Crime, Drama

Rating: 3.6/5 (with 18 votes)

Boy (少年, Shōnen) is a 1969 Japanese film directed by Nagisa Ōshima, starring Tetsuo Abe, Akiko Koyama and Fumio Watanabe. ()

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About Boy

A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles. After suffering an injury during the war, the father believes he is an invalid. He and his wife have a 10-year-old boy and another, younger boy. The adults pretend to be injured by autos in crowded traffic, blackmailing the fearful motorists with threats to call in the police.

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Boy 少年 Nagisa Oshima 渚大島 -1969(Trailer, 4:18)

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Additional Information

Production country: Japan

Made by: Art Theatre Guild, Sozosha

Original language: Japanese (JA)

Spoken languages: Japanese (JA)

Translated into 11 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 04/09/1970 (World premiere: 07/26/1969)

Cast: Fumio Watanabe

Director: Nagisa Ōshima

Composer: Hikaru Hayashi

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Shônen"

"The Boy"

"Shônen"

Keywords: faked accidents, family travels, child abuse

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Other movies with this title: Boy (ES, 1940), Boy (NZ, 2004), Boy (2008), Boy (PH, 2009), Boy (NZ, 2010), Boy (DK, 2011), Boy (2012), Boy (DK, 2013), Boy (DK, 2014), Boy (CA, 2015), Boy (2016), Boy (2017), Boy (DE, 2018), Boy (2019), Boy (HR, 2022), Boy (AR, 2023)

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