This will come as no surprise to fans of “Blue Spring” and other Toyoda films, with their real-world authenticity beneath the surreal stylistics.
In contrast to Miike, who highlighted the absurdity of his characters’ macho posturing, Toyoda takes the manga-esque material relatively seriously and films the principals’ emotional eruptions relatively realistically.
And once again the story revolves around the eternal battle to be Numero Uno, be it in the school, the neighborhood or the known punk world. Once again the setting is the all-boys Suzuran High, where the “Crows” - the self-chosen moniker for the student body - hang out and plot the destruction of their rivals. “Crows Explode” has much in common with the two previous films. Five years on comes the third installment in the series, “Crows Explode,” with a nearly entirely different cast and a new director, Toshiaki Toyoda, whose 2001 “Aoi Haru (Blue Spring)” helped birth the current spate of what might be called “school of punk” films.
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