another fukasaku film that sorta remind me of suzuki style . like blackmail be my life and this film focus on the young generation . it tell the story of four young men who can not quite stay out of trouble . eventually the get the idea of put together some money in order to buy a dump truck and work for themselves . the story be tell in a jumbled time structure retell the story of how they come to buy the truck and how two of them end up drop out of their business venture . really it the story of japan and the potential the country have in the year follow the american occupation . a kurosawa high and low show the best and bad of japanese society in the early 60 and this film show the potential of a country that be newly industrialize and but still cop with the change of capitalism and be humiliate by world war ii . fukasaku successfully show hope and fatalism and optimism and pessimism and the power of the group and the importance of find one own path . the end reaffirms these theme and add a poignancy and power that the rest of the film only skirt . b .