---
title: 'Young Thugs: Nostalgia (1998)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Takashi Miike'
released: '1998-09-26'
runtime_minutes: 94
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'Japan'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/young-thugs-nostalgia-1998'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0304296/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Young Thugs: Nostalgia (1998)

1998 · 94 min · Drama · Japan

Original title: 岸和田少年愚連隊 望郷

## Synopsis

Young Thugs: Nostalgia  is a 1998 Japanese film directed by Takashi Miike. It is based on the autobiographical novel Kishiwada shōnen gurentai: Bōkyō written by Riichi Nakaba. It is the prequel to the 1997 film Young Thugs: Innocent Blood.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Takashi Miike](https://cinepixo.com/people/takashi-miike)
- **Screenplay:** [Masa Nakamura](https://cinepixo.com/people/masa-nakamura)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Kōji Endō](https://cinepixo.com/people/koji-endo)
- **Producer:** [Toshiaki Nakazawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/toshiaki-nakazawa), [Yasuhiko Furusato](https://cinepixo.com/people/yasuhiko-furusato), [Masao Kimura](https://cinepixo.com/people/masao-kimura)
- **Director of Photography:** [Hideo Yamamoto](https://cinepixo.com/people/hideo-yamamoto)
- **Editor:** [Yasushi Shimamura](https://cinepixo.com/people/yasushi-shimamura)

## Cast

- [Takeshi Caesar](https://cinepixo.com/people/takeshi-caesar)
- [Naoto Takenaka](https://cinepixo.com/people/naoto-takenaka)
- [Setsuko Karasuma](https://cinepixo.com/people/setsuko-karasuma)
- [Saki Takaoka](https://cinepixo.com/people/saki-takaoka)
- [Yuki Nagata](https://cinepixo.com/people/yuki-nagata)
- [Matsunosuke Shōfukutei](https://cinepixo.com/people/matsunosuke-shofukutei)

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