River's Edge (2018)

Description

Wakakusa Haruna (Nikaido Fumi) is invited to a riverbank at night after helping Yamada (Yoshizawa Ryo), who is being bullied by her boyfriend Kannonzaki (Uesugi Shuhei), and sees a corpse left there. Haruna is speechless when Yamada says, "Looking at this gives me courage." Then, Kozue (Sumire), a junior student and model who shares the existence of the corpse as a treasure, appears, and the three are bound together by a unique friendship that will never develop into romance. Yamada hides the fact that he is gay and works as a prostitute in town, Kanna (Morikawa Aoi) harbors an intense love for Yamada, Kannonzaki cannot control his violent impulses, Kozue eats large amounts of food and then vomits it up, and Haruna's friend Rumi (Doi Shiori) has a physical relationship with Kannonzaki. In the stagnant daily life of the closed-off school, each of them is harboring something that is on the verge of exploding. Caught up in their love, hate, and loneliness, Haruna, who tries to be strong, also carries an emptiness that prevents her from clinging to anything. Then one day, Haruna receives news from Yamada that they have found another dead body...