CMディレクターとして活躍しながら「青春」をモチーフにした自主制作映画を撮り続ける節田朋一郎監督が、2023年と24年に手がけた3作品を収録した作品集。 夏休みの高校。ひとりぼっちの女子生徒は、校庭の隅でコウモリの死骸を煮る生物教師と出くわし、一緒にネズミの骨格標本を作ることになる。女子生徒は骨を愛でる意味を知り、生物教師は女子生徒がなぜひとりぼっちなのかを知る(中編「深骨」)。ある高校の夏休み。骨を愛してやまない生物教師が棚に並べた標本を、同僚の女性教師が「気持ち悪い」といぶかしげに見つめる。女性教師は生物教師に思いを寄せているが、その気持ちを素直に伝えられずにいた(短編「愛骨」)。ある喫茶店のマスターと、暇を持てあますアルバイトの女性。2人が交わすくだらない偏見の話から、かつてこの喫茶店を舞台に繰り広げられた若者たちの青春譚が始まる。ある者は「毒」で、ある者は「音楽」で、世界を救おうとしていた(中編「毒と音楽」)。 出演は「凪の憂鬱」の辻凪子、劇団「あひるなんちゃら」に所属する根津茂尚、「五月の雨」の安川まり。
A collection of three works directed by Toichiro Setsuda in 2023 and 2024. While active as a commercial director, Setsuda has continued making independent films on the theme of "youth." Summer vacation at a high school. A lone female student encounters a biology teacher boiling a bat carcass in a corner of the schoolyard, and together they begin making a mouse skeleton specimen. The girl learns the meaning of admiring bones, and the biology teacher learns why the girl is all alone (medium-length film "Deep Bone"). Summer vacation at a certain high school. A female teacher colleague stares suspiciously at the specimens lined up on a shelf by a biology teacher who loves bones beyond measure, muttering that they're "creepy." The female teacher has feelings for the biology teacher but cannot bring herself to express them honestly (short film "Love Bone"). The master of a coffee shop and a female part-timer bored with free time. From their exchange of trivial, prejudiced talk, a tale of youth once played out in this very coffee shop begins. Some tried to save the world with "poison," others with "music" (medium-length film "Poison and Music"). The cast includes Nagiko Tsuji of "The Melancholy of Nagi," Shigenao Nezu of the theater troupe "Ahiru Nanchara," and Mari Yasukawa of "May Rain."
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