# BLOW THE NIGHT! Let's Spend the Night Together

BLOW THE NIGHT! Let's Spend the Night Together (1983) COUNTRY: Japan DIRECTOR: Chūsei Sone Sonechuusei LANGUAGE: Japanese SUBTITLES: None ASPECT RATIO: TV 1.35:1 DURATION: 109 min Blow the Night! Let's Spend the Night Together is an extremely rare (in fact, almost totally unknown outside of Japan) 1983 Japanese Docu-drama, shot on 16mm film (hence the films grainy appearance), starring actual Yanki gang members as many of the main characters. According to Japanese I have spoken to who grew up in the period portrayed in the film, Blow the Night, though somewhat dramatized provides an incredibily accurate, realistic, raw, gritty and no-holds-barred look at the life of members of Japanese street gangs of the late 70s and early 80s. As a gaijin (literally "outside person" meaning "foreigner" or "non-Japanese person") one can not help but draw comparisons to the British movies "Scrubbers" and "Scum".... possibly, even the TV series "Grange Hill" in its earliest incarnation. As previously stated, many of the main characters are portrayed by actual Yanki gang members, and despite their total inexperience in front of a camera, or perhaps because of it, they come across as very natural and 'real' on screen... after all, for the majority of the movie they are really playing themselves. The basic story is split into two parts... It begins with fifteen-year-old troublemaker Namie Takada moving from the suburbs of Tokyo to a regional city in rural Japan and coming up against the local…

- Kind: Feature
- Year: 1983
- Runtime: 1 h 49 min
- Genres: Drama
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/BLOWTHENIGHT)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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