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Blue Spring

Blue Spring

7,2 /10 (114 Votes)
2001 JA 83 min

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.

Release date

09/09/2001

Votes

114

Popularity

3.1

AREN’T THERE SOME FLOWERS THAT NEVER BLOOM.

Genres

Status

Released

Original title

青い春

Language

JA

Runtime

83 min

Budget

$500,000

Revenue

$1,000,000

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Call Me Dunham

2025-10-27

⭐ 10

A 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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