A 135-minute anime where grief punches you in the face — literally.
After the death of his elder brother, Ginjiro Yamazaki appoints himself his parents' protector. After transferring to a new school, he gets into a lot of fights.
Acting
Kappei Yamaguchi makes Ginjiro's silence scream louder than his fights
Direction
Ishiguro stretches quiet moments until they ache
Score
Synth guitars that somehow make heartbreak feel cinematic
Director
Koichi Ishiguro
Kappei Yamaguchi
Ginjiro Yamazaki (voice)
Miki Ito
Takako Ozawa (voice)
Hideyuki Tanaka
Hirata (voice)
Masami Kikuchi
Katsuya Takei (voice)
Nobuo Tobita
Munemitsu Date (voice)
Toshihiko Seki
Hideki Mitsui (voice)
Wataru Takagi
Norio Korogi (voice)
Yasunori Matsumoto
Kinta Sasa (voice)
Ai Orikasa
Kumiko (voice)
Katsumi Suzuki
Class Teacher (voice)
Kei Tomiyama
Takako's Father (voice)
Miyuki Ichijou
Takako's Mother (voice)
Kenichi Ogata
Old Man (voice)
Reiko Suzuki
Old Woman (voice)
Ryuzou Ishino
Student (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Koichi Ishiguro directed this between Saint Seiya projects, explaining the unexpectedly operatic emotional beats.
The 'banchō' delinquent archetype here subverts 70s-80s nostalgia by making Ginjiro's violence explicitly traumatic rather than cool.
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