One against all and all against one! The film, by the way, is among the ten favorite films of Takeshi Kitano, this is so by the way.
Sogo Ishii is a cult Japanese director, singer of punk culture. He initially played in a punk rock band, and only after he discovered the talent of the filmmaker. "The Road of Mad Thunder" is his graduation work from film school. The film somehow reflects the author’s perception of the Japanese reality of the early 80s. I’m not an expert, I can’t comment on anything.
I don’t know if the main character Jin had a real prototype in Japan, but I was reminded of Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols. At least his image in the movie Sid and Nancy. Same crazy punk, nihilist and poofy. The plot is quite fully disclosed in the description for the film. The end is quite natural ... Dialogue from the final scene:
- Motorcycle! Give me the bike!
- You can’t ride this motorcycle, your brakes don’t work!
The hero only smiles, unscrews the handle of gas to the maximum and goes to the mountains.
On the one hand, the film is about a teenage rebellion, meaningless and merciless, as I thought after first seeing it. But the director is an anarchist and a punk, so it's not that simple. The second careful view of the film showed that those who left the main character, not so good. The girl, for whom the former leader of the Kamikaze gang decided to settle down, eventually abandoned him and went to a rich major. Some members of the gang became police officers. The general turned out to be gay and persuaded one of Jin's former friends to cohabit for promising a career. And it seems that Jin is the only one who remained faithful to the ideals to the end, honest to himself, did not betray anyone and was always ready to come to the aid of friends, which cannot be said about the latter.
In general, a hooligan punk film, kind of with meaning, about rebellion and a strong rebellious character. And the music is fun. The only thing is that it's a little old (1980), and if anyone had remade it, I'd love to see it.