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Overview

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Director:
Toshiaki Toyoda
Writers:
Toshiaki Toyoda (written by) and
Taiyo Matsumoto (comic strip)
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Release Date:
29 June 2002 (Japan) more
Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
No regrets for my youth
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User Comments:
are you angst-ridden? more

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Ryuhei Matsuda ... Kujo
Hirofumi Arai ... Aoki
Sosuke Takaoka ... Yukio
Yusuke Oshiba ... Kimura
Yuta Yamazaki ... Ota
Shûgo Oshinari ... Yoshimura
Takashi Tsukamoto ... Freshman in Baseball Club
Eita ... Obake (Ghost)
Onimaru ... Suzuki
Kiyohiko Shibukawa ... Leader of Rival School Gang (as Kee)
Kyôko Koizumi ... Kiosk Woman
Mame Yamada ... Hanada-sensei
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Erena ... High-school girl
Nobuo Kyô
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Blue Spring (International: English title)
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Runtime:
83 min
Country:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
Color:
Color
Certification:
New Zealand:R18 | Canada:13+ (Quebec)

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Aoki: Take me with you... more
Movie Connections:
Version of Revolver - Aoi haru (2003) more
Soundtrack:
Mona Lisa more

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5 out of 15 people found the following comment useful:-
are you angst-ridden?, 2 July 2003
Author: trilobee from NZ

mmmm, interesting. saw this & battale royale at a festival, and of the two, this was the more disturbing by far. it doesn't really matter that you don't actually see a student's groinal area getting tenderised with a baseball bat, or another student having a drink can wedged into his mouth before the gang leader stomps on his head - the screaming and the scattered teeth are enough. battale royale's camp qualities & tomato sauce (ketchup for US readers) undercut any identification with real, actual, terrorising highschool-type terror... i gather from this site that battale royale has not been released in the states. where are your priorities, o america fair?

anyway, this is supposedly a rant on blue spring. this girl is very, very glad she's not a student at a japanese highschool, it all seems awfully bleak and graffiti-covered. but fabulous to watch (and the failed baseball player is delicious, for those of you who like school uniforms.) it's occasionally emotive and over-played, but blue spring makes its points about adolescent (and adult) despair with economy and nice lighting. & i particularly liked the way the thrash japanese rock score sometimes plays in the characters' heads & drowns out any attempt at communication...

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