800 Two Lap Runners is a 1994 Japanese film directed by Ryūichi Hiroki starring Shunsuke Matsuoka and Eugene Nomura.
[1] This coming-of-age story revolves around two young long distance runners, Kenji Hirose and Ryuji Nakazawa.
Kenji, haunted by memories of his dead friend Aihara with whom he had a brief homosexual affair, is now dating Aihara's former girlfriend Kyoko, but Kyoko is more interested in Kenji than he is in her.
800 Two Lap Runners was screened at the Berlin International Film Festival in the "Panorama" section in February 1994[2] before its theatrical release in Japan on July 9, 1994, by Herald Ace (ヘラルド・エース).
[3] At the 16th Yokohama Film Festival held in January 1995, 800 Two Lap Runners was listed as the fourth best film of 1994[5] and actor Shunsuke Matsuoka was given one of the Best New Talent Awards.