Moriyamachu Driving School
Movie · Comedy · Japanese Cinema

Kiyotaka (Shuhei Nomura) is a college student with a positive if not lackadaisical outlook on life. This summer, he resolves to get his driver's license. And then while out one day, he gets hit by a car driven by a young yakuza, who turns out, to be a former high school classmate, Todoroki (Kento Kaku). Always cool and poker-faced, Todoroki dropped out of high school to become yakuza gang member. Todoroki had been driving without a license is ordered by gang boss to take lessons and get one.The unconscious Kyotaka is thrown into the trunk of the car and taken with Todoroki to an off-the-books driving school where Kiyotaka is overjoyed, once conscious again, to learn that the yakuza gang will pay for his driving lessons as well. Although complete opposites in personality, lifestyle and circumstances, the two boys, Kiyotaka and Todoroki, strike up an odd friendship and spend an entire summer together at the driving school. There, Kiyotaka experiences his first pangs of love, falling for a driving instructor named Sak. Life is looking great as he anticipates the extra freedom the license will earn him. Meanwhile Todoroki laments getting a license as it will push him more deeply into the suffocating world of the yakuza.

2016 · 1h 43m
Starring Shûhei Nomura, Kento Kaku, Yukino Kishii
Director Keisuke Toyoshima

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  • 森山中教習所
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  • Shûhei Nomura
    Kiyotaka Sato
  • Kento Kaku
    Todoroki
  • Yukino Kishii
    Chieko Matsuda
  • Takuma Otoo
    本田智則
  • Duncan
    上原威一郎
  • Toshie Negishi
    上原都紀
  • Kumiko Asô
    上原サキ
  • Ken Mitsuishi
    中島重臣
  • K‌T
    Keisuke Toyoshima
    Director
  • R‌T
    Ryuhei Tsutsui
    Producer
  • Y‌H
    Yûji Hiratai
    Producer

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Moriyamachu Driving School

Comedy

Kiyotaka (Shuhei Nomura) is a college student with a positive if not lackadaisical outlook on life. This summer, he resolves to get his driver's license. And then while out one day, he gets hit by a car driven by a young yakuza, who turns out, to be a former high school classmate, Todoroki (Kento Kaku). Always cool and poker-faced, Todoroki dropped out of high school to become yakuza gang member. Todoroki had been driving without a license is ordered by gang boss to take lessons and get one.The unconscious Kyotaka is thrown into the trunk of the car and taken with Todoroki to an off-the-books driving school where Kiyotaka is overjoyed, once conscious again, to learn that the yakuza gang will pay for his driving lessons as well. Although complete opposites in personality, lifestyle and circumstances, the two boys, Kiyotaka and Todoroki, strike up an odd friendship and spend an entire summer together at the driving school. There, Kiyotaka experiences his first pangs of love, falling for a driving instructor named Sak. Life is looking great as he anticipates the extra freedom the license will earn him. Meanwhile Todoroki laments getting a license as it will push him more deeply into the suffocating world of the yakuza.

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Studio
Ponycanyon
Released
2016
Run Time
1 hr 43 min
Rated
G
Region of Origin
Japan
©2016真造圭伍・小学館/「森山中教習所」製作委員会

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