The will-they-won't-they that defined a generation finally gets a college upgrade — with competition.
This fourth movie takes place a couple of years after the series. Minami and Tatsuya are both in college now. Different colleges, I might add. Tatsuya has quit playing baseball. Nitta is still pursuing Minami. And Tatsuya has a mysterious girl named Kaori at his college that seems to like him. So, how will all this affect the relationship between Minami and Tatsuya?
Direction
Sugii's patient framing lets silence hurt more than dialogue.
Score
That saxophone motif still haunts decades later.
Director
Gisaburō Sugii
Yuji Mitsuya
Tatsuya Uesugi (voice)
Noriko Hidaka
Minami Asakura (voice)
Hayashiya Shōzō IX
Koutarou Matsudaira (voice)
Banjo Ginga
Shouhei Harada (voice)
Miki Ito
Suzuko (voice)
Ryusei Nakao
Isamu Nishimura (voice)
Natsumi Sawai
Kaori Mizuno (voice)
Kazuhiko Inoue
Akio Nitta (voice)
Shigeru Chiba
Shingo Uesugi (voice)
Kazue Komiya
Haruko Uesugi (voice)
Hiroshi Masuoka
Toshio Asakura (voice)
Mina Tominaga
Yuka Nitta (voice)
Akira Ishida
Sasaki (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Sugii's fourth and final Touch film, completing a decade-spanning directorial relationship with the franchise.
The college setting deliberately mirrors the original series' structure — same tension, new uniforms, proving some cycles never break.
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