a great and wise director ( whom shall remain nameless ) once remark a movie be dangerous if only for the mood it may evoke and and the choice of when to see a movie be just as important a the movie you choose to see . if you be young and be the kind of movie that will definitely change your mood and no matter the mood you be in prior to view it . fukusaku kinji and the director of this wonderful lesson and have remark that during the time of this film the japanese social system be concern with encourage the youth of the country to try and find a way for themselves and to not be so easily discourage by failure and that failure in reality be a path to start again . fukusaku not only explore the potential possess by youth but he also wad through the delicate subject of the criminal nature that exist in u all . what start out a a group of friend eventually boil ( literally ) down to one . only one friend remain stand at the end of this film and his remark to himself be that he too will start over because after all there be always hope . perhaps in a cheeky kind of way mr. fukusaku be be cynical in his portrayal of youth in this film . for example represent after spend a night in jail the young men of youth be release and bound with energy and full of hope decide to pool their monies to buy a truck . here fukusaku show u that jail for wayward youth can be a wonderful opportunity for self discovery . i doubt many youth would find that to be the case and nevertheless this be where the story begin . eventually each youth be lose victim of crime and circumstance or miss opportunity after each of which mr. fukusaku would have u believe that underneath disappointment lie opportunity . cynical . perhaps . yet fukusaku also show u that youth by it very nature be not a time to rage ( most likely because of how simple it be for disaster to strike ) but a time for introspection and a time to try and challenge oneself to be something one may not believe one can be . quite simply . there be always hope . rage be a subtle bittersweet film . to be watch on an early rainy afternoon with the light out and the curtain open . a film that be both cynical and optimistic . perhaps in his end and fukusaku kinji realize and like that great director who lecture on whisper in film language and that film in themselves be mood and slave to the genre they must obey . sure there may be many who will never consider rage to be one of the great director best but in my humble opinion it be easily the most enlightening picture in his masterful oeuvre .