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Blue Spring

Name: Blue Spring
Released: 2001-09-10
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Ryuhei Matsuda, Hirofumi Arai, Sôsuke Takaoka, Shugo Oshinari, Takashi Tsukamoto

Ratings: IMDB 7.2 / TMDB 7.1

Director: Toshiaki Toyoda
Cast: Ryuhei Matsuda, Hirofumi Arai, Sôsuke Takaoka, Shugo Oshinari, Takashi Tsukamoto, 瑛太
Region: Japan
Genre: Drama
Released: 2001-09-10(多伦多电影节) / 2002-06-29(日本)
Runtime: 83 min
Original language: Japanese
Budget: $500,000
Box office: $1,000,000
Release dates: United States 2025-07-20, Japan 2001-09-09
Keywords: high school, coming of age, suicide, school, based on manga, brutality, violence in schools, aggressive, japanese high school, emptiness, juvenile delinquency, youth

Overview

Soon after being named the new leader of his high school's gang system, Kujo grows bored with the violence and hatred that surround him. He wants desperately to abandon his post… but his once-enviable position of power has a strange way of making him feel powerless.