【この作品を選んだ理由】これを観たのは20代のはじめで、そのとき、10代の時にずっと探していた作品だったと思った。高校のクラスメイトの青春群像。同性愛者の伊藤くん、伊藤くんが恋する吉田くん、吉田くんと付き合っている優等生、ふざけてるクラスメイト、そして誰ともつるまない転校生・相原。岡田義徳さん演じる伊藤くんとDIVAデビュー前の浜崎あゆみさん演じる相原、孤独な二人の少し秘密の男女の友情が本当に好き。青春は一言多い、青春は一言足りない、青春は誰にも何も伝えきれない。心が体を伴って集まった教室も、二人きりの緊張感も、二人だけの開放感も、夏という季節がカメラになってかれらの姿を捉えるかのように焼き付けられている。かっこよくない。

[Reason for selecting this work] I watched this in my early twenties and felt it was the film I had been searching for throughout my teens. A portrait of high school classmates' youth. There's Ito-kun, who is gay; Yoshida-kun, whom Ito loves; the honor student dating Yoshida; the joking classmates; and the transfer student Aihara who pals around with no one. I truly love the slightly secretive boy-girl friendship between Ito-kun, played by Okada Yoshinori, and Aihara, played by Hamasaki Ayumi before her DIVA debut—two lonely souls. Youth says one word too many, youth falls one word short, youth can never convey everything to anyone. Whether it's the classroom where hearts and bodies gathered, the tension of being alone together, or the sense of liberation just between the two of them, it's all burned into the frame as if summer itself were the camera capturing them. It's not cool—it's something more.

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