“AREN’T THERE SOME FLOWERS THAT NEVER BLOOM.”
Blue Spring (2001)
September 9, 20011h 23mJA
7.1
107 votes
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.
Director
Toshiaki ToyodaWriters
Top Billed Cast
Status
Released
Original Language
Japanese
Budget
$500K
Revenue
$1.0M
Production Companies
Omega MicottFilm MakersArts Magic
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Call Me Dunham
10.0A symbolic and cold coming-of-age film. It subtly yet powerfully portrays the existential emptiness of youth, delving into the struggles and hollowness of adolescence through the lens of a high school student trapped in a chaotic, lawless, and violence-ridden environment. Toshiaki Toyoda delivers a stark critique of an educational system that, rather than guiding and nurturing its students toward a better future, becomes complicit in their disillusionment. Blue Spring is not your typical teenage film. It’s a bleak poem about a generation growing up with no future, no direction, and no…
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