Connection
Blue Spring is a film of genre Drama directed by Toshiaki Toyoda released in USA on 29 june 2002 with Ryūhei Matsuda
Blue Spring (2002)
If you like this film, let us know!
Add to a movie listBlue Spring (青い春, Aoi haru) is a 2001 Japanese youth drama film, written and directed by Toshiaki Toyoda and based on Taiyō Matsumoto's manga of same title. It tells a tale of apathetic school students at a run-down Tokyo high school for boys. It was released on June 29, 2002.
The film title can be understood as "inexperienced years" or teenage years, but it also can be understood as "fresh start". According to manga artist Taiyō Matsumoto, the title is intended as a play on irony.
Since its release it has become a cult classic in Japan and overseas.
Synopsis
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.Actors
Ryūhei Matsuda
(Kujo)
Sōsuke Takaoka
(Yukio)
Shugo Oshinari
(Yoshimura)
Eita
(Obake)
Kiyohiko Shibukawa
(Leader of Rival School Gang)
Comments
Leave comment :
Suggestions of similar film to Blue Spring
There are 30 films with the same actors, 4 films with the same director, 96865 with the same cinematographic genres (including 321 with exactly the same 4 genres than Blue Spring), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked Blue Spring, you will probably like those similar films :
9 Souls (2003)
, 1h59Directed by Toshiaki Toyoda
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure, Crime
Actors Yoshio Harada, Ryūhei Matsuda, Asami Imajuku, Kazuki Kitamura, Jun Kunimura, Kiyohiko Shibukawa
Rating70%
Un groupe hétéroclite de neuf détenus s'évade d'une prison au Japon, un ensemble d'individus condamnés pour les crimes les plus divers et que rien n'aurait dû réunir hormis le fait de se trouver au même endroit au même moment, dans cette grande cellule collective. De la cavale qui suit ce fait divers imaginaire, Toshiaki Toyoda, réalisateur du fameux Aoi Haru [Blue Spring] crée 9 Souls (neuf âmes en français), suivant le parcours de ce groupe qui se crée pour mieux se déliter, de tous et de chacun de ces individus en recherche, mais de quoi? Un film doux et dur sur l'homme, la culpabilité et la rédemption qui mêle habilement comédie et tragédie, poésie et action dans un voyage picaresque à travers le Japon contemporain.
Crows Explode (2014)
, 2h9Directed by Toshiaki Toyoda
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Thriller, Martial arts, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Films about education, Sports films, Martial arts films, Gangster films, Films about school violence
Actors Taichi Saotome, Yūya Yagira, Ryo Katsuji, Masahiro Higashide, Suzu Hirose, Kento Nagayama
Rating57%
Kaburagi Kazeo is a new transfer student at Suzuran All-Boys High School. While walking to school, he witnesses a group of students get clipped by a passing town car. He arrives just in time for the “opening ceremony”, a showdown between Goura Toru, the school's number one fighter, and another student. The fracas is interrupted by the arrival of Kagami Ryohei, another transfer student, whose arrogance immediately draws the ire of the crowd. Recognizing his vehicle as the town car from earlier, Kazeo confronts Ryohei, who ignores him and walks away. Before he can follow, Kazeo is attacked by another student, Wajima, whom he promptly knocks out with a single punch.
Pornostar (1998)
, 1h38Directed by Toshiaki Toyoda
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Tetta Sugimoto, Akaji Maro, Reona Hirota, Kiyohiko Shibukawa
Rating64%
Un jeune homme décide un jour de commencer à tuer des yakuza. Après avoir tué ses deux premiers, il est obligé d'aider un gangster en herbe et ses sous-fifres maladroits à effectuer un coup. Alors que les choses s'arrangent au début, ce jeune psychopathe devient rapidement plus problématique que prévu par le gang. Arriveront-ils à se débarrasser de lui ou seront-ils ses prochaines victimes ?
Hanging Garden (2005)
, 1h54Directed by Toshiaki Toyoda
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Anne Suzuki, Kyoko Koizumi, Itsuji Itao, Eita, Jun Kunimura, Asami Imajuku
Rating70%
All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001)
, 2h26Directed by Shunji Iwai
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Musical, Crime, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Films about school violence
Actors Shugo Oshinari, Ayumi Itō, Hayato Ichihara, Takao Ōsawa, Miwako Ichikawa, Yu Aoi
Rating74%
All About Lily Chou-Chou follows two boys, Shūsuke Hoshino and Yūichi Hasumi, from the start of junior middle school when they first meet, and into second grade. The film has a discontinuous storyline, starting midway through the story, just after the second term of junior high school begins, then flashes back to the first term and summer vacation, and then skips back to the present.
Pacchigi! (2005)
Directed by Kazuyuki Izutsu
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action
Actors Erika Sawajiri, Yōko Maki, Shun Shioya, Sōsuke Takaoka, Hiroyuki Onoue, Kazuki Namioka
Rating66%
Romeo, A.K.A. Kosuke Matsuyama (Shun Shioya), is a second-year high school student. A nice, normal, nonviolent type, he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a rampaging crowd of Korean boys, outraged by insults perpetrated by several of his idiotic class-mates on two Korean girls. He makes a narrow escape, but soon after, he and his best bud Yoshio (Keisuke Koide) are sent by their home-room teacher to invite the Korean students to a friendly soccer game as a way of restoring the peace.
Crows Zero II (2009)
, 2h13Directed by Takashi Miike
Origin Japon
Genres Thriller, Martial arts, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Films about education, Sports films, Martial arts films, Gangster films, Films about school violence
Actors Shun Oguri, Sōsuke Takaoka, Takayuki Yamada, Meisa Kuroki, Yusuke Izaki, Hisato Izaki
Rating71%
8 months after triumphing over Serizawa Tamao (Takayuki Yamada), Takiya Genji (Shun Oguri) still struggles to attain supremacy at Suzuran All-Boys High School. Following a decisive defeat at the hands of the legendary Rindaman, and on the verge of graduating without fulfilling his goal, Genji grows quietly desperate. He begins challenging Rindaman regularly, but consistently fails to beat him. His situation escalates when he unwittingly breaks a non-aggression pact between Suzuran and a rival school, Housen Academy, by coming to the aid of Kawanishi Noboru (Shinnosuke Abe) during a heated confrontation. Genji learns that the agreement between the two schools was established two years prior when, during a skirmish, Noboru violated a gang law and used a weapon to fatally wound Housen's former leader, Bitō Makio. Suzuran had subsequently sworn not to interfere with Housen's retribution upon Noboru's release from prison. Genji's protection of Kawanishi provokes Housen's current leader, Narumi Taiga (Nobuaki Kaneko), to declare war against Suzuran. Genji and his allies go on the defensive, engaging in several violent conflicts with Housen's "Army of Killers".
Taboo (1999)
, 1h40Directed by Nagisa Ōshima
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Sports films, Transport films, LGBT-related films, Martial arts films, Samurai films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Ryūhei Matsuda, Takeshi Kitano, Tadanobu Asano, Tomorowo Taguchi, Shinji Takeda, Susumu Terajima
Rating67%
At the start of the movie, the young and handsome Kanō Sōzaburō (Ryuhei Matsuda) is admitted to the Shinsengumi, an elite samurai group led by Kondō Isami (Yoichi Sai) that seeks to defend the Tokugawa shogunate against reformist forces. He is a very skilled swordsman, but it is his appearance that makes many of the others in the (strictly male) group, both students and superiors, attracted to him, creating tension within the group of people vying for Kanō's affections.
Crows Zero (2007)
, 2h9Directed by Takashi Miike
Origin Japon
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films
Actors Shun Oguri, Sōsuke Takaoka, Takayuki Yamada, Meisa Kuroki, Kenichi Endō, Sansei Shiomi
Rating69%
Newly transferred high school senior Takiya Genji (Shun Oguri) arrives at Suzuran All-Boys High School, an institution infamous for its population of violent delinquents. During the freshman orientation assembly, yakuza arrive at the school seeking vengeance on third-year Serizawa Tamao (Takayuki Yamada) for assaulting some members of their gang. The thugs mistake Genji for their target and a brawl ensues on the school field. Meanwhile, Serizawa is visiting his best friend Tatsukawa Tokio (Kenta Kiritani), who has just been discharged from a hospital. Upon returning to the school, Serizawa witnesses Genji defeat the last of the yakuza.
Battle Royale II: Requiem (2003)
, 2h13Directed by Kinji Fukasaku, Kenta Fukasaku
Origin Japon
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Horror
Themes Political films, Dystopian films
Actors Tatsuya Fujiwara, Ai Maeda, Shugo Oshinari, Yuma Ishigaki, Sonny Chiba, Miyuki Kanbe
Rating46%
Three years after the events of the first film, the survivors of previous Battle Royales have formed a rebel group called the Wild Seven which is led by Shuya Nanahara. A class of teenagers from Shikanotoride Junior High School (鹿之砦中学校, Shikanotoride Chūgakkō) are kidnapped by the Japanese government. Instead of stereotypically studious Japanese students, these ninth graders are “a ragtag collection of delinquents and losers from all over Japan,” including tough-guy rugby players and punks with dyed hair. More importantly, many are orphans whose parents or family died in bombings by the Wild Seven. After their school bus is diverted to an army base, the students are herded into a cage, surrounded by armed guards, and confronted by their schoolteacher, Riki Takeuchi, who lays down the ground rules of the new Battle Royale game. Wild Seven is hiding out on a deserted island (filmed on Hashima Island), and instead of being forced to kill each other, as in the old Battle Royale, the students are sent off to war and ordered to attack the terrorist group’s hideout en masse and kill Shuya within 72 hours. Most of the students are not interested in being forced to avenge their families, but they are coerced to fight through exploding metal collars, which their captors can detonate by remote control. The teacher shows them a line in the caged classroom: those who wish to participate are instructed to cross the line, while those who refuse to participate will be killed. The students are put into 'pairs'; if one student dies, then his or her partner will be killed via collar detonation.