Rent Blue Spring (2001)
3.7 of 5 from 57 ratings
1h 22min
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- Synopsis:
Following a decade of economic doldrums and a series of freak crimes, Japan during the early '00's saw a number of bitter, self-lacerating films such as 'Battle Royale' and 'Harmful Insects' that seems to attack society at its very core. As another entry into this growing genre, 'Blue Spring' creates a brutally Hobbesian vision of high school - each student against all in a bruising battle for social dominance. In their graduation year, the disaffected students turn their concrete box of a school into a backdrop against which to create their own version of society. The newly elected boss Kujo (Ryuhei Matsuda) disdains all the rules, including those that have led to his election. Into this power vacuum, his scandalized friend and lieutenant Aoki (Hirofumi Aral) enters with vicious intent. As graduation looms, the pupils study violence and death. - Actors:
- Ryûhei Matsuda, Hirofumi Arai, Sôsuke Takaoka, Yûsuke Ohshiba, Yuta Yamazaki, Shûgo Oshinari, Takashi Tsukamoto, Eita, Onimaru, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Kyôko Koizumi, Mame Yamada, Genta Dairaku, Erena, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Nobuo Kyô, Ichi Omiya
- Directors:
- Toshiaki Toyoda
- Producers:
- Dai Miyazaki
- Writers:
- Toshiaki Toyoda, Taiyô Matsumoto
- Aka:
- Aoi Haru
- Studio:
- Third Window Films
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Drama
- Countries:
- Japan
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 13/05/2019
- Run Time:
- 82 minutes
- Languages:
- Japanese LPCM Stereo
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Audio Commentary by Director Toshiaki Toyoda
- Making Of
