青い春

Set in a Japanese suburb. Kujo has become leader of a group of students through a dangerous ritual. Kujo is admired by Aoki, with whom he has been friends since early childhood. The bored gang passes the sluggishly flowing time before the final exams with small and bigger vulgarities. While the others have to deal with their future, Kujo increasingly loses orientation and also interest in the group. For the first time on his own, disappointed Aoki triggers a tragedy. TOYODA, who has already made a highly acclaimed film about urban loneliness with PORNOSTAR (NC '00), turns to the suburbs this time. In elegant, atmospheric images, he calmly but mercilessly shows the disintegration of hierarchies and friendships and the violence that results from it.