"An astonishingly accomplished first feature which captured critical acclaim for young director Yanagimachi. Yuji Homma, a motorcycle gang member Yanagimachi discovered while making a documentary, plays Masaru, a young man up from the country to go to university who pays his way by delivering newspapers. Masaru is angered by the insults he must tolerate from his customers, and so sets out to take a small measure of revenge against each of his tormentors. "In addition to discovering newcomer Homma, Yanagimachi revived the career of Hideko Okiyama, who rocketed to prominence in Shohei Imamura's The Profound Desire of the Gods in 1968 and then plunged, à la Frances Farmer, through severe emotional problems that included several suicide attempts and prolonged periods of hospitalization. Okiyama is now working on making her own film. "A 19-Year Old's Plan finished 7th in the 1979 Kinema Junpo balloting for best Japanese film. It was shown during Director's Week at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival and has since been shown commercially in Europe. This is its initial circuit through the U.S." --David Owens, Japan Film Center A 19-Year Old's Plan will be presented at the 1983 San Francisco International Film Festival along with Mitsuo Yanagimachi's newest film, A Farewell to Land, which has been chosen for the New York Museum of Modern Art's New Directors/New Films series and will also be shown at Los Angeles' Filmex '83.