Youth movie set in Osaka about the trial and tribulations of growing up. Centered around three close friends, a bike racer, a yakuza thug and a spoiled rich boy - who meet a girl from Tokyo.  Based on director Shinsuke Shimada's own book "Kaze, to Suzuka".

Slow Down

Hama-chan goes to Okayama to look for Su-san when he goes missing a few days after freezing up during his inaugural speech as the company chairman.

Free and Easy 18

An emotional masterpiece of the love between father and son.  A junior high school student Kuwae Ryo lives in a small town, Chatan-cho which is located in the center of Okinawa's main island. He makes a friend with an American boy Kevin whom he met at a Karate school, but Kevin accidentally shoots Ryo's father with a gun. Meanwhile, Ryo discovers a past secret of his father.