The protagonist, Yuji Mitani, is a stage actor with little fame, who works as a temporary worker in the factory in order to supplement the family plan.
Once I met my high school classmate Tada, the two of them chatted and recalled their strange friend Sasaki from high school.
Sasaki is a person in the class who cannot be ignored, and every time his classmates shout his name, he will take off his clothes and dance in the classroom.
He was often reprimanded by his teachers for this strange thing.
Sasaki, Yuji, Tada, and Kimura, four good friends, often play baseball, chat, and play together.
Although Sasaki always does some strange things, the friendship between them has become an indelible memory of youth.
After The death of Sasaki's father, Sasaki left the class and 4 lost contact.
A few years after graduation, Yuji one day suddenly received a call from Sasaki.
After graduating from high school, his classmates scattered things, and Sasaki's personality did not have any serious work, playing games in the marble room every day to make money.
The story of the high school 4-person group is also a wonderful past in Sasaki's heart, and he will also tell these to other friends.
However, not long after, Yuji received a call from Sasaki again, but the other end of the phone was Sasaki's girlfriend (Sasaki met on kTV)
She tells Yuji that Sasaki is dead.
Three friends rushed to Sasaki's hometown overnight to give him a funeral. Since then, mahjong has been one less person.
His friend Kimura is married to a high school girl and has a baby.
When Yuji saw their happy life and remembered their past with Sasaki, he could no longer hold back the tears.
At the end, Sasaki rushes out of the hearse naked, and the four friends once again dance like they did in high school. I think this is the protagonist's fantasy.
The film starts with a two-idiot classmate Sasaki, until Sasaki also has a group of two-idiot classmates (that is, the protagonists). Are Japanese high school students suffering so much? I think it should not be, but these male protagonists and Sasaki do not have a good life after graduation, so they will have all kinds of worries, and the comparison can look at Kimura's life. There is always something inexplicable about the Japanese in the film.
In fact, I can still accept the Japanese secondary two, but the character relationship and plot in many places in the movie are not explained enough, and it feels very awkward. Sasaki and his girlfriend sang a song, and the girlfriend led the funeral on behalf of the family? Yuji's relationship with his girlfriend and sasaki's relationship with his father are also a bit blurry. So it's still the work of a relatively young director.
The film's biggest success was not to be shortlisted for the Tokyo Film Festival or win the Yokohama Newcomer Director Award, but the heroine, Shiri Hagiwara (Yuji's girlfriend), who successfully married director Takuya Uchiyama.