Synopsis for Noboru Iguchi's The Flowers of Evil (Aku no hana) from Nikkatsu International Sales (Nikkatsu Corporation / Nikkatsu K.K.): "8th grader Takao Kasuga has a crush on Nanako Saeki and steals her gym wear. Sawa Nakamura sees him and makes outlandish demands in exchange for her silence. Takao becomes Nanako's boyfriend but he feels conflicted. The teenagers' uncertainty leads them down a self-destructive path, which ends in disaster and the three are separated. Three years later Takao is in high school and he's missing Sawa who he hasn't seen since the incident. He befriends Aya Tokiwa but he realizes that his relationship is overshadowed by the relationship he had with Sawa..."