Completed - JAPANESE - Drama - 115 minutes
Filmmaker Momoko Fukuda returns with her fresh and evocative second feature film, presenting tales of faltering, feverish, and fallible youth, as seen in the lives of six high school students who struggle with hopelessness, anxiety, and shameful secrets.
Year of production : 2020 Director(s) : Momoko FUKUDA Writer(s) : Kosuke MUKAI Cast : Honoka MATSUMOTO, Seina NAKATA, Yuki KATAYAMA, Daichi KANEKO, Shouma KAI, Pei OMURO
En is top of her year at school, and Kotoko ranks at rock bottom, but they’ve been close friends since they were little. One day, they see classmate Narihira crying, and Kotoko falls in love at first sight. It seems that Narihira is buckling under the weight of caring for his mentally unstable father.Meanwhile, En’s classmate Jun, who is full of resentment for her own father, discovers the private predicament of fellow student Io who has just relocated from Tokyo, which leads to them becoming physically intimate.At the same time, En struggles with a secret of her own...Set in a country town in Osaka, this coming-of-age ensemble movie vividly conveys the growing pains of six high school students feeling suffocated by their youth.
Country(ies) : JAPAN