P. P. Rider

Three high school students set out on the road. The reason is that a classmate has been taken. The boy taken is the bully of the class. The ones who took him are yakuza. The three of them decide to find him. Along the way they get into trouble with the police. A former gangster turns up in front of them. The man becomes a kind of travelling companion. They move from town to town. The journey goes on through the summer. Meanwhile the three of them feel the first shocks of growing up. The account moves back and forth between the comic and the harsh. Tatsuya Fuji and Michiko Kawai take the leads, with Masatoshi Nagase also in the cast, in Shinji Sōmai’s Japanese film of 1983.