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Blue Spring
:Description:In their graduation year, the disaffected students turn their concrete box of a school into a backdrop against which to create their own version of society. The newly elected boss Kujo (played with cool panache by rising star Ryuhei Matsuda) disdains all the rules, including those that have led to his election. Into this power vacuum, his scandalized friend and lieutenant Aoki (Hirofumi Arai) enters with vicious intent. As graduation looms, the pupils study violence and death. EXTRAS: Bio/Filmographies Tom Mes Commentary 2 Interviews With Director Toshiaki Toyoda Artwork Scene Selection
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Tokyo Rampage
:Description:An example of modern angry youth, Arano knows no fear. When questioned or threatened, his first response is to lash out with a knife. Before long, his natural viciousness is harnessed by some callow pimps against their Yakuza bosses, but Arano (who dreams of knives raining down from the sky) is more of a psychopath than any of them imagined. A Taxi Driver for contemporary Japan.
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9 Souls
:Description:When a bomber, a patricide, a pornographer, and a mad biker, together with various other forms of social detritus, break free from jail, it is not surprising that mayhem follows in their wake. What is surprising is the degree of sympathy that brilliant young director Toshiaki Toyoda ('Blue Spring') elicits with elegant ease from the spectator, as the gang of misfits roams the land in a despair that is crueler for being comic. This is humanity on the run to nowhere. Although originally inspired by 'The Great Escape', the film has ...
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The Films of Toshiaki Toyoda: Blue Spring/9 Souls
:Description:Two films that showcase the talents of one of the most important young directors working in Japan today, Toshiaki Toyoda. These films are as memorable for their stirring soundtracks as they are for the stellar performances from their all-star casts. Blue Spring – In this school, the students run the halls. But when the system breaks down, all that is left is violence and death. 9 Souls – A gang of convicts break out of jail on the trail of a hidden treasure. But as each escapee’s past comes back to ...
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Young Japan 3
: :ArtsmagicDVD presents a series of five hard-hitting & controversial titles from the greatest Japanese directors each with a different part of the SALARYMAN KINTARO anime FREE! The third in this exclusive series is the Toshiaki Toyoda classic, Blue Spring which comes with Salaryman Kintaro Part Three free.
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