Due to its large amount of delinquents who are hated by the general people for their inauspiciousness, similarily to crows, it is also known as "Crows high school". Even with the bashed heads, they are alive in a way their better socialized contemporaries, the video-game warriors included, will never understand.Bouya Harumichi is a new transfer student to Suzuran all-boys high school, a place where only the worst delinquents assemble. He also understands why his Suzuran toughs fight as easily as they breathe - it’s not just a release for their raging hormones, but a way of being with their friends and telling the world they exist. That said, Miike directs with an energy, velocity and cheeky bravado that are pure punk. Like many screen adaptations of long-running manga series, “Crows Zero II” crams in too much in trying to please the manga’s legion of fans. The many characters and subplots, including Genji’s tempestuous romance with a punk-club singer (Meisa Kuroki) and his troubled relationship with his gang-boss dad (Goro Kishitani), may be hard to keep up with unless you have seen the first film. Also, the group battle scenes, with hundreds of punks whaling on each other, have a scale and impact reminiscent of the gaudier clashes in “Braveheart,” though no one gets their head lopped off with a sword. The action is, accordingly, more realistic, right down to the gory-looking makeup and bone-crunching sound effects. Have the Suzuran “crows” - a self-chosen nickname that advertises their outcast status - finally met their match? Or will they finally unite under the old Hell’s Angels motto: “All for one and all on one?”Īs in the first film, the brawls are nearly nonstop, though the strobing has been toned down and the violence amped up.
Meanwhile, the internecine fightin’ and feudin’ continue as usual at Suzuran, until Kosen launches a tightly coordinated attack that leaves the disorganized Suzuran opposition in small bloody heaps around the city. Another is Tatsuya Bito (Haruma Miura), the blond-haired younger brother of the fallen Kosen leader, who is cool as ice and seriously out for pay back. One of his most fearsome warriors is Ryo Urushibara (Go Ayano), a tall, pale-faced, delicately featured boy who looks like Michael Jackson’s Japanese cousin, but fights like Bruce Lee. Released from a reformatory, Kawanishi finds a Kosen horde waiting for him and narrowly escapes a lynching by fleeing to the protection of his Suzuran juniors.įrustrated in their desire to pound Kawanishi, the Kosen punks plot to get revenge under the leadership of the fiery, goateed Taiga Narumi (Nobuaki Kaeko).
The Kosen punks are after a Suzuran alum, the lanky Kawanishi (Shinnosuke Abe), who fatally knifed a Kosen leader in a dust-up two years earlier. In the sequel, “Crows Zero II,” again directed by Miike, the boys from Suzuran are back, but this time they have a new rival, the white-uniformed students from another institution of higher punkery, Kosen High School. “Crows Zero” has its moments of comic relief, but many more scenes of all-in brawling, strobed like the battle scenes in “Saving Private Ryan” and accompanied by a hard-rock score.
He and his allies defeat the school’s most powerful gang, led by the long-haired Tamao Serizawa (Takayuki Yamada), but in a mano-a-mano contest, Genji falls to Linderman (Motoki Fukami), a curly-haired loner giant who is the school’s strongest fighter. The plot revolves around the attempt of Genji Takiya (Shun Oguri), the quick-fisted son of a Suzuran alum and current gang boss, to unite all the school’s gangs under his leadership, which no one has ever done before. The heroes are students at Suzuran High School, where gangs rule the graffiti-covered halls.
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