Release Year: 2005 Rating: R Duration: 109 minutes Director: Lexi Alexander Producer: Gigi Pritzker, Deborah Del Prete, Donald Zuckerman Distributor: Freestyle Releasing
synopsis
Expelled unfairly from Harvard, American Matt Buckner flees to England to his sister's home. Once there, he is befriended by her charming and dangerous brother-in-law, Pete Dunham, and introduced to the underworld of British football hooliganism. Matt learns to stand his ground through a friendship that develops against the backdrop of this secret and often violent world.
cast
Anna Tsuchiya as Ichigo Shirayuri Eiko Koike as Akimi Hirotaro Honda as Yakuza no kashira, The Boss Hiroyuki Miyasako as Momoko's father Katsuhisa Namase as Pachinko-ya ten-in Kirin Kiki as Momoko's grand mother Kyoko Fukada as Momoko Ryugasaki Ryoko Shinohara as Momoko's mother Sadao Abe as Ikkakujuu no Ryuuji Shin Yazawa as Miko Yoshinori Okada as Baby, 'The Stars Shine Bright' Owner YosiYosi Arakawa as Fruit Seller
quote
Matt Buckner: I've never lived closer to danger, but I've never felt safer. I've never felt more confident, and people could spot it from a mile away. And as for this, the violence? I gotta be honest - it grew on me. Once you've taken a few punches and realize you're not made of glass, you don't feel alive unless you're pushing yourself as far as you can go.
GREEN STREET HOOLIGANS, an energetic mix of FIGHT CLUB's adoration of violence and WEST SIDE STORY's popularization of gang warfare, takes American viewers into the world of British soccer hooligans. These thuggish gangs aren't well understood on this side of the Atlantic. As we get to know them in Lexi Alexander's film, the lads become frightfully easy to understand -- their motives, that is, not their accents. By pulverizing the other team's hooligans they get the same intense rush that others look for in drugs.
