River's Edge
“An unknown dead body left by the riverside leads them to sharing a secret and creating a distorted bond.”
CrimeDrama
Haruna Wakagusa is a high school student who lives with her mother. Ichiro Yamada is gay and Haruna’s classmate. He is bullied at school, but Haruna sticks up for Ichiro. They become intimate and Ichiro tells Haruna his secret. He found a dead body along the riverside. A new body is soon found.
VIBE
This film feels like a quiet, suffocating dread. It's a raw, unflinching look at the isolation and unspoken pain of adolescence, set against a backdrop of mundane, yet unsettling, reality. A deeply affecting, somber experience.
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