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Blue

Country: Japan, Language: Japanese, 116 mins

  • Director: Hiroshi Ando
  • Writer: Kiriko Nananan; Yuka Honcho
  • Producer: Kazutaka Akimoto; Kazushi Fumoto

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Quiet and introspective Kayako routinely has lunch on a rooftop with three of her friends that attend an all girls high school with her in a seaside town. One day she invites Masami Endo to join the group. As her friendship with Masami grows, she loses contact more and more with the others. She is impressed with Endo's greater knowledge of music and art, and although Endo proclaims that she is insignificant with no aim in life, Kayako says that she wishes that she could be like her new friend. Their feelings deepen beyond friendship and she proclaims her love for Endo on a lonely beach. The two become physically intimate but when summer comes Masami disappears and Kayako learns that she has gone to Tokyo to meet a married man with whom she had an affair the year before. An abortion had led to her being suspended from school.


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Cast & Characters

Mikako Ichikawa as Kayako Kirishima;
Manami Konishi as Masami Endo;
Asami Imajuku as Mieko Nakano;
Jun Murakami as Older guy;
Sosuke Takaoka as Manabu Mizuuchi;
Kenzo Kawarasaki as Teacher of world history;
Asahi Yoshida as Teacher of art;
Ayano Nakamura as Chika Watanabe