Blue Spring poster

Blue Spring( 2001)

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FLOWERS ARE MEANT TO BLOOM. NOT TO DRY UP.

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.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Ryuhei Matsuda

      Kujo

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      Hirofumi Arai

      Aoki

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      Sousuke Takaoka

      Yukio

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      Yusuke Oshiba

      Kimura

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      Yuta Yamazaki

      Ohta

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      Shugo Oshinari

      Yoshimura

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      Eita Nagayama

      Obake / Ghost

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      Kiyohiko Shibukawa

      Kee (Leader of Rival School Gang)

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      Takashi Tsukamoto

      Freshman in Baseball Club

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      Onimaru

      Suzuki

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      Kyoko Koizumi

      Kiosk Woman

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      Mame Yamada

      Hanada-Sensei

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      Ōmiya Ichi

      Guidance Counselor

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      Rei Yamanaka

      Leo

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      Erena

      High School Girl

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    A review by Call Me Dunham

    10
    Written by Call Me Dunham on Mon Oct 27 2025
    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 l...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

    500000.00

    Revenue

    1000000.00

    Keywords

    • high school
    • suicide
    • nihilism
    • violence in schools
    • coming of age
    • school
    • based on manga
    • brutality
    • emptiness
    • aggressive
    • japanese high school
    • toxic masculinity
    • juvenile delinquency
    • high school gang
    • systemic corruption
    • youth
    • underdogs and coming of age
    • chaos school
    • apathetic school