1960s Japan, and Misuzu, a high school student with a chaotic home life, finds a sanctuary with her brother Ryo and his friends - a group of nihilistic teenagers who spend their days hanging around bars and indulging in drugs and casual sex. But one of the youths - the ambitious, charismatic Kishi - wants more, and devises a plan to rob a bank van, and the group begin rehearsing the heist. Based on an allegedly autobiographical novel by Japanese writer Misuzu Nakahara this powerful widescreen saga is the finest Japanese drama of the year: a stunningly visualised elegy of life, and love, on the edge.

Cast:
Aoi Miyazaki .... Misuzu
Keisuke Koide .... Kishi
Masaru Miyazaki .... Ryo
Rena Komine .... Yuka
Tasuku Emoto .... Takeshi
Munetaka Aoki .... Tetsu
Yûya Matsuura
Shunji Fujimura .... Motorcycle seller
Tadahiro Aoki .... Tetsu
Haruko Wanibuchi

TRIVIA:
Based on Misuzu Nakahara's allegedly "autobiographical" novel in which the writer claims that she participated in the unsolved crime widely known in Japan as "Sanoku-en jiken (300 Million Yen Affair)" when she was a high school student.

Although the story depicted in the film is fictitious, the crime actually took place on December 10, 1968. The amount stolen in a single crime is still the highest record in Japan (equivalent to today's $2M), and despite more than 100 evidences left behind, with 170,000 policemen against 110,000 suspects spending almost a billion yen in the investigation, nobody was arrested and the stolen money was never found. The investigation was officially closed for prescription in 1975.