High Score Girl

In 1991, Haruo Yaguchi has little interest in lessons and endless confidence in his arcade skills. Then his classmate Akira Ono beats him at Street Fighter II, overturning the one part of life where he believed he could not lose.

Their rivalry draws them back to the same machines and gradually becomes something harder to name. Across changing games and the awkward years of growing up, the arcade offers a language for two children whose lives outside it are very different.