A leading postwar Japanese film critic and theorist who co-founded the seminal film magazine Eiga Hihyo (Film Criticism) in 1957, Eizo Yamagiwa made his directorial debut with this independent featureālong thought lost until a negative was recently discoveredāabout a group of idle bourgeois students known as the āRoppongi Tribeā (Roppongi zoku). Depicting the resignation and nihilism of the postwar generation in the years following the Anpo Treaty conflicts through a coming-of-age narrative, Yamagiwa offers sharp criticism of the prevalent characterizations of Japan’s new youth offered by Nikkatsu’s taiyozoku (āSun Tribeā) films and the New Wave at large.