Everything Goes Wrong

About Everything Goes Wrong

Everything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man. The young rebel Jiro has to deal with an environment of crime and prostitution, and the impact of its choices on personal relationships: one with his mother, one with her business man lover and one with the girl in love with him.

Everything Goes Wrong (1960) is a crime film directed by Seijun Suzuki. At 71 minutes long, it arrived in October 1960.

Its themes are street gang, abortion, juvenile delinquent, and rebellious youth.

Tamio Kawachi stars as Jirô Sugita, Yoshiko Nezu as Toshimi Tani, Sayuri Yoshinaga as Noriko, and Shinako Nakagawa as Etsuko Shimojô. The screenplay is by Seiji Hoshikawa. In the United States it streams on Criterion Channel.

A Clockwork Orange, The Outsiders, and The Young and the Damned make useful companions to Everything Goes Wrong.