Clearly there are problems in Japan especially with boys in schools and employment afterwards, particularly with the bullying and rather high suicide numbers. Another complication is that teachers rather overlook the problems and just continue to look only at the compliant boys. The film is a fantasy with very good music and excellent cinematography and realistic violence although it has to be said it is something of a nightmare. One difficulty is that there is not really much of a story but there is the clapping scary game at the edge of the building and an idea maybe joining nothing else than the Yakuza. It is rather nihilistic and gruelling and certainly something rather different and maybe can look as something like Battle Royale (2000).
Review of Blue Spring
