Directed by:
Toshiaki ToyodaScreenplay:
Toshiaki ToyodaCinematography:
Norimichi KasamatsuCast:
Ryūhei Matsuda, Hirofumi Arai, Kyōko Koizumi, Eita Nagayama, Takashi Tsukamoto, 忍成修吾, Sousuke Takaoka, Onimaru, Nobuo Kyo, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Shinsuke Suzuki (more)Plots(1)
This is a story about high school anarchy in the long, bruised-and-battered tradition of BE-BOP HIGH SCHOOL and FUDOH. This school is surrounded by misleadingly picturesque cherry trees in full bloom, it's the students who set the rules while uncooperative teachers are dangled from windows. In this power structure, the leader is decided by a peculiar game of dare: hanging from the rooftop fence, he who can clap his hands the highest number of times without plummeting to his death is king. Violent assaults on the throne are punished with a severe bruising or in worse cases with a kitchen knife in the gut. The desolate concrete hallways of the building are covered floor to ceiling in black graffiti, which acquires a new coat each time another student comes to power. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Ryūhei Matsuda
Japan
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Hirofumi Arai
Japan
Best movies:
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Kyōko Koizumi
Japan
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Eita Nagayama
Japan
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Takashi Tsukamoto
Japan
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忍成修吾
Japan
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Sousuke Takaoka
Japan
Best movies:
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Onimaru
Japan
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Nobuo Kyo
Japan
Best movies:
Blue Spring (2001)
Nana 2 (2006)
Kiyohiko Shibukawa
Japan
Best movies:
Hanging Garden (2005)
Crows-Zero (2007)
Blue Spring (2001)
Shinsuke Suzuki
Japan
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Mame Yamada
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