Scenes from: Cruel Story of Youth (1960)

I’ve written about this electric film before…

• Where in Tokyo was this filmed? “Cruel Story of Youth” (1960)
• Odaiba, then & now: a visual history

…so the only thing I’ll add are the following photos, which provide a nice feel of Tokyo’s streets in the early 1960’s.

In this first picture we see a car in the center of the frame, with a Toden streetcar behind it. For more about Tokyo’s streetcar network, see:

• Tokyo streetcar maps 東京都電マップ
• From train to tree: Golden Gai, Toden streetcar, and Shinjuku Promenade Park
• Times have changed: Akasaka Mitsuke (1949, 1963, 2013) 赤坂見附 交差点

In the next frame we see a typical Tokyo street; many of the buildings on the left are classic example of kanban kenchiku (billboard architecture).

This one I’ve published before, but I’ll include it here for thematic solidarity…