However, Ai's actions prevent him from doing so, he transfers to Hanazono Jitsugyuō, the most delinquent high school in the Kantō region.
Ai's father is then embroiled in a corruption scandal and arrested, and her mother returns to her family home and finds herself in a predicament.
Sadoya appears with a knife and stabs Makoto, who drags his injured body to the beach were Ai waits.
A film adaptation directed by Shigeyuki Yamane and starring Hideki Saijo, Ai Saotome, and Masami Naka was released in July 1974.
Initially planned to again star Saijo and Saotome and release during Golden Week,[8] due to scheduling conflicts, they re-cast the role of Makoto with an open call, with Nanjō winning the part.
This time, it is done in the form of an experimental musical film similar to Bollywood, with song numbers to highlight the story further The basic plotline sees a cross-class love story between Ai (Emi Takei), the daughter of a well-respected Tokyo family, and delinquent Makoto (Satoshi Tsumabuki) who is seeking the leader of a female gang.