Well, first off, I'd like to say that I enjoyed this film very much even though I was expecting less from it before watching it.
My question is, what's the meaning of "blue" in "blue spring"?
I do understand, I believe, why they put "spring" but I just don't get why it is a "blue spring".
Thx.
I asked the same question to my friend.
and we came up with this, that blue maybe means sad, like "are you feeling blue?" = sad? Sad Spring.. sure is in the film, maybe im completlty wrong!
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I'm still not sure about the whole revelation in the film... BUT...
SPOILERS
You must remember that Kujo, Yukio and the other guy... each grew their own flowers. But then Yukio got arrested, and Other Guy lived the Yakuza life... Kujo was the only one left to grow the flowers, but he also lost something, his best friend Aoki. The whole "Spring" in Blue Spring I believe is 'starting over' Kujo asked the mini-sensei if there are flowers that never bloom again. The mini-sensei did a little magic trick by making a wilted petal into a living bud proving him wrong. But.....It's just the ending... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5...!!!!!!!! Sad sad sad.
Great film.
more on this... that word "aoi" also mean "inexperienced"
shareFlowers bloom in spring. The movie seemed to take place in spring. If one of my friends joined Yakuza, one killed another then was arrested, and one killed himself after hating me, I would be sad. Blue Spring
I look inside myself and see my heart is black
-paint it black by the rolling stones
Like its said, Aoi means blue and Haru means spring.
In ancient japan, for the color green they used the blue, then a "blue" thing means an inmature thing, like a fruit or a person. Actually, the traffic lights in japan are red, yellow and blue. Then, instahead of "green light" is said "blue light".
Just, the concept of colours was different.
Then, its said the life have 4 seasons like the life, spring, summer, autumn and winter. youth, young adult, adult, and old person.
AoiHaru isn't a usable word in japanese, because the correct lecture of both words together is "seishun" like its said. Seishun just means "youthful", nothing more, nothing else. Just a word-game.
But I understand for a person who don't know about it, it's a weird thing, Blue spring.. If it matters, japanese don't thing about "seishun" like it was "blue spring" but "youthful" only..
Doesn't "ao" stand both for "green" and "blue"?
share Well, I have some bad news. You are all a little far off. This movie was based of a manga printed in 1993 under the name "Aoi Haru". In a reprinted version in America by VIZ, LLC there is a small section at the end where the author speaks about the book. Unfourtunately, I don't have enough time tonight to type out the whole thing, but the following sums it up fairly well:
"No matter how passionate you were, no matter how much your blood boiled, I believe youth is a blue time. Blue - that indistinct blue that paints the town moments before the sunrise. Winter is coming."
Taiyo Matsumoto,
October 13th 1998
Take note how he says "Winter is coming." Another thing - the flowers were just starting to bloom as the students watered them. And the cherry blossoms were out in full force.
yes the previous poster is right--taiyo matsumoto goes on to say in the same paragraph
"Blue - that indistinct blue that paints the town moments before the sun rises. Winter is coming."
the film is loosely based off of this manga--it encorperates 3 out of the 7 short stories that make up this manga--personally i enjoyed the manga quite a bit more--but i have just come to expect great things out of taiyo matsumoto
I assume that maybe the film takes place during the spring time. And the word blue sorta represents a melancholy within the characters and the entire atmosphere of the film (blue - as in sad or feeling down).
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