A kid on a motorcycle drifting through his own life while everyone else demands he wake up. The film doesn't argue with him or fix him, it just sits in that specific teenage ache where you know something's wrong but can't name it yet. Music and silence do the talking. There's no grand resolution because real aimlessness doesn't resolve in ninety minutes. This is for people who understand that sometimes a film's refusal to comfort you is exactly the point.
Seventeen-year-old Akihiko Nomura, known as Bobby, lives for his motorcycle. While his strict, traditional father pushes him to apply for college, Bobby does little but clean, tune and ride his bike, and his grades are failing. His mother barely speaks, so his only real support is his nosy but encouraging younger sister, Keiko. When photos of Bobby on a road trip appear in a motorcycle hobby magazine, a girl his age named Sakumi picks up the issue and writes him a dreamy, romantic letter. Bobby, a young man of very few words, answers with short notes. His obsession soon leads him to quit school for a job at a biker bar, and his father throws him out of the house. While staying with a friend, he is thrilled to hear that his pen pal plans to call him, but that same day his boss takes him to a motocross track. The film is a romantic drama adapted from a story by Yoshio Kataoka.
