Movie: Blue
Japanese: ブルー
Genre: Drama/Romance
Director: Hiroshi Ando
Writer: Kiriko Nananan (manga),Yuka Honcho
Producer: Dai Miyazaki
Cinematography: Kazuhiro Suzuki
Released: March 29, 2003 (Japan)
Runtime: 116 min.
Music: Yoshihide Otomo
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan
Cast:
Mikako Ichikawa - Kayako Kirishima
Manami Konishi - Masami Endō
Asami Imajuku - Mieko Nakano
Ayano Nakamura - Chika Watanabe
Yoko Hirayama - Sumida Emiko
Ayaka Ota - Ayana Murai
Plot:
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. Feeling betrayed when Masami returns and lies about where she has been...
General:
Format.......: Matroska
File Size....: 1489,73 MiB
Duration.....: 1h 56mn
Bitrate......: 1 792 Kbps
Subtitles....: English .SRT, English .idx/sub. Thanks to famitsu1, ikeda69, caramel1121@ADC
Source.......: DVD9
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Video:
Video Format......: AVC
Video Codec.......: x264 - core 114 r1913 5fd3dce
Bitrate...........: 1 372 Kbps
Frame Rate........: 23.976 fps
Aspect Ratio......: 1.875
Resolution........: 720x384
Audio #1:
Format..........: AC-3
Bitrate.........: 384 Kbps
Channels........: 2 channels
Sampling Rate...: 48.0 KHz
Language........: Japanese
