Crazy Fruit

Crazy Fruit
Japanese name
Kanji	狂った果実
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

Crazy Fruit aka Crazed Fruit (狂った果実, 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 (本間優二) as Tetsuo
• Yuki Ninagawa as Chika
• Eiko Nagashima as Harue
• Eiji Okada as Tono, Chika's step father
• Nobutaka Masutomi (益富信孝) as Osawa, Harue's husband
• Kinuko Obata (小畠絹子) 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

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.
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３回ヨコハマ映画祭 １９８１年日本映画個人賞 (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)