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A wheelchair-bound drop-out becomes a martial arts pupil. | add synopsisAwards:
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Haruhiko Katô | ... | Taichi Ashihara |
| Rie Tomosaka | ... | Masako |
| Chiaki Hara | ... | Tamiko Ashihara |
| Akiko Kinouchi | ... | Chika |
 | Ryo Ishibashi | ... | Masatsugu Hiraishi |
| Shohei Hino | ... | Kiyoshi |
| Masahiro Kuwana | ... | Shotaro Gensui |
| Kansuke Shimizu | ... | Kawazoe |
| Shirô Sano | ... | Video-ya no kyaku |
| Kimiko Yo | ... | 'Himegoto' no Mama |
| Masatoshi Nagase | ... | Bartender |
| Shunsuke Matsuoka | ... | Bar no avec-otoko |
| Tatsuya Gashuin | ... | Yubin-haitatsu-in |
| Hiroshi Kanbe | ... | Rental Video tenchou |
| Tomorowo Taguchi | ... | Saburo Ishikawa |
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Taichi is a high school drop out hoping to be a pro boxer when a road accident leaves him paralysed from the waist down. During a long stay in hospital and an even longer convalescence, he wallows first in thoughts of suicide, then in aggressive and self-destructive behavior. Things begin to look up when he's mistaken by racketeers for the attempted rescuer of a rape victim: he's offered a job, meets a great woman and gets accepted as a pupil by a master of aiki-jujutsu, the martial art which channels aggression back to the aggressor, who takes him on because he's intrigued by the challenge of teaching someone confined to a wheelchair.
Very uplifting picture which never depresses the viewer. If you've seen The Karate Kid (and who hasn't) you'll love the martial arts tournament where our hero fights a thuggish karate master who wants to kill him.