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Stupid little girls from troubled households making dumb life choices meet bad boys in motorcycle gangs with equally turbulent backgrounds. The romance, the rivaling male factions, the angsty teen drama, it kind of reminded me of Twilight (except anything Japanese is obviously levels above all Hollywood garbage). The cinematography is pretty good and that coastal Japanese scenery is always pretty to look at, but the story is a bit all over the place. A lot of random stuff happens but there is not much plot or character development. There is this looming war between two biker gangs, but we are never really shown what these gangs actually do, who they are and why they want to fight each other. Nothing is explored with adequate depth, so for a large part the movie I found myself not caring too much about what's going on. It does get better towards the end though.