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Set in Aomori at the end of the 1960s, this youth drama depicts the thrilling and hectic day of young people just before they graduate high school and enter society. A film adaptation of the autobiographical novel by Kenichi Kawakami.
There is a man, who always win a mahjong game... His name is Ryu the Caller.
V-Cinema fart comedy.
Kei keeps her truck rolling day after day, always thinking of her young daughter, Iku, who lives apart from her. Kei’s protégé, Maako, also drives a truck to pay her little sister Mio’s school fees. One day, Kei spots Mio taking money from a middle-aged man. Not long after, word comes that Maako has quit her job…
They returned to the city by Mt. Fuji where they spent their high school days. Their mission: to finish their unfinished passion - their original play, which turned out to be their dead classmate's last will. Some things are left behind, but never forgotten. Follow the journey of four Japanese youths as they seek what they once lost, and what we all have lost.
"Won't you be my lover? Unless there are some rules..."
Filmed entirely in the Shibuya area, the city and youth culture of Shibuya in the 1990s are fully visualized.Theatrical release was also particular about Shibuya, and a special dome was set up at the entrance of Spain Saka and it was independently screened. As for skateboarding , which is the core of the story , professional skateboarders who were active at the time appeared in large numbers and showed off various techniques in the play.
Genshichi, a child of poor farmers, enrolls in an army flight school. There, he meets an instructor named Sekine. As the war situation worsens day by day, Sekine begins to teach kamikaze attacks. Having lost his family, Sekine volunteers for a kamikaze attack and heads to the base where he finds Genshichi. The two board a two-seater plane and depart for Okinawa on a kamikaze mission.
