Subete ga kurutteru

The united states title for this is everything goes wrong, while in japanese, it translates to everything is crazy. Jiro is a confused, angry, youth, trying to grow up in the crazy world around him. This was 1960, so japan was starting to get back on its feet after world war two. When he discovers that his mother is hanging around with a married man, he must deal with his own feelings, in spite of the fact that the married man has helped them financially over the years. So Jiro does what a youth in a city does... he joins a gang and goes down the wrong path. Starts pulling jobs and making bad decisions. It's pretty good, with lots of peppy, jazzy music. The tone always seems to be upbeat and fast, even when Jiro is breaking into cars. The director must really like jazz. Story by Akira Ichijo. Directed by Seijun Suzuki. Wikipedia dot com says he went to film school after the war, and about ten years later, began directing films. This is pretty good... has almost the same plot as Blackboard Jungle, which had come out five years prior.