A Blue Automobile

Aoi Kuruma (A Blue Automobile) focuses on such a character – a part-time DJ and record-store employee named Richio (Arata). With his spiky yellow hair, wrap-around shades and pale mask of a face, Richio would seem to be an icy moon circling the distant planet of his own regard. But as Okuhara shows us from the first scene, Richio has been traumatized by a boyhood horror – and still bears the physical scars on one eye, the emotional scars …

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