Dead Run

The story concerns a boy called Shuji, growing up in a rural area of Japan where the community is divided into “Shore” and “Offshore” – the latter so-named because it is built on reclaimed land. He meets a few main characters, besides his family, that shape his development – gangster Oni-ken and his hostess girlfriend, an ominous-looking Catholic priest and his congregation-of-one, the troubled and rebellious teenage …