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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Pairs Blue Spring’s alienated adolescence and casual cruelty with an even more lyrical, digitally fractured portrait of students searching for escape through music and friendship.
02
Why this pick
A stripped-down, disquieting companion in which a detached teenager drifts through neglect and violence, sustaining Blue Spring’s chilly mood and refusal of easy redemption.
03
Why this pick
Its stylized, severe school setting turns adolescent resentment into escalating psychological tension, matching Blue Spring’s bleak view of institutions that abandon young people.
04
Why this pick
Follows two aimless school friends into diverging futures with the same unsentimental tenderness, deadpan humor, and awareness that youthful bravado cannot last.
05
Why this pick
For Blue Spring’s raw physicality and social dead-end atmosphere: a volatile young man’s purposeless violence is filmed with abrasive immediacy rather than glamour.
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01 / THE STORY
At Asashi High, a run-down senior high school for boys, Kujo (Ryuhei Matsuda), Aoki (Hirofumi Arai), Yukio (Sousuke Takaoka), Yoshimura (Shugo Oshinari) and Ota (Yuta Yamazaki) are a gang of school friends lost in apathy and dissatisfaction. They are aware their future offers limited options. Even most teachers have already written them off as a lost cause.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Kujo
Aoki
Yukio
Yoshimura
Obake (Ghost)
Freshman in Baseball Club
Kiosk Woman
Leader of Rival School Gang (as Kee)
