The protagonist is an 18-year-old innocent death-row prisoner.
The man who was unable to trust others gradually begins to trust others and open his heart by finding true friendship and love in various places he hides out.
A human drama depicting a long runaway after escaping from a prison to reveal one's true identity.

Now, in response to fervent requests for more, CROWS is back… for a new war! And another mind-blowing cinematic event!
Several months have passed since the end of the first episode. Genji (Shun Oguri) and his victorious G.P.S. alliance of Suzuran High School find themselves facing down a new challenge by the students of Hosen Academy, feared by everyone as "The Army of Killers."As Suzuran falls into disarray and disunity, a "super rookie" freshman of Hosen Academy, Tatsuya Bito (Haruma Miura), appears before the Crows to present them with their greatest challenge ever. – The final battle is on!

A place, somewhere, that bears a strong resemblance in history and environment to Japan. There is the ‘Special Law for the Maintenance of National Prosperity’. 24 hours before this capsule is to bring about death, an official of the Ministry of Health and Welfare brings a letter announcing impending death, an ‘ikigami’. Those who receive this ‘ikigami’ letter have 24 hours of absolute freedom to do anything and everything they want.
Kengo Fujimoto has made his way through university and taken a job with the Ministry. His work now is delivering these ‘ikigami’ letters.
Fujimoto, delivering these letters and seeing the absurdity of death being forced upon these young people, gradually begins to have doubts about his job...

At the Suzuran High School for Boys- the strongest and the most heinous school - delinquent juveniles (called ‘Crows’) would have punch-ups on every occasion and were fighting for supremacy everyday. However, the appearance of a new transfer student dramatically remodels the political map of the school factions. This marks the beginning of the biggest rivalry conflict in the history of Suzuran High School...

With a cumulative total of 32 million copies sold “CROWS” is a legendary comic book with charismatic popularity that has finally been made into a movie!

While working at a seaside inn with his high school buddies, Koji Fujishiro meets Kaoru Amane, a street musician. Kaoru is suffering from an incurable disease called XP (xeroderma pigmentosum), and can’t be exposed to the sun. Under the sun, the two would never have met. Still, destiny brings the two together. Since the day he suddenly lost his job, Koji has lost sight of his dreams. But when he meets Kaoru, who is making positive efforts to become a singer, Koji regains his long-forgotten passion for music.

Hiro was an ace pitcher in junior high school, until he was diagnosed with a “glass elbow.” After giving up on the sport for a time, his passion for the game draws him back to it in high school and he joins a baseball team only to find himself in a match against his old rival Hideo who plays for the highest ranked high school. The meeting of the two is observed by Hideo’s girlfriend, Hikari, and she finds herself increasingly drawn towards Hiro, despite his only being interested in baseball. These two young men battle for the dream of winning the famous Koushien Baseball Tournament and for the heart of the young woman who doesn’t know for whom she should cheer.

“I thought I might be using a lifetime’s happiness in a moment. I was that happy and she was that beautiful.” A young boy stands on the red earth of Australia under its blue sky. It is 17-year-old Sakutaro Matsumoto. His time with the girl comes back to him. The colored sand runs through his hands and a tear appears on his cheek. He wakes up. It’s 2004 and he is 34 years old and in Japan. He thinks “I have been in a world without her for 17 years.” Returning home to see his old high school for the last time before it is demolished, Saku confronts anew the loss of the love of his life, Aki, to leukemia 17 years ago. Now a medical researcher at graduate school, he has been living as if half of him died with her since then. Based on the bestselling novel that sold over 3 million copies, the past and present come together in this love story that is both pure and sad.

Ryosuke’s bride-to-be ran out on him one week before the wedding. Ai is self-centered and never knows what she wants. Shy and introverted, Mikan longs to find her true love. All three meet late at night in a diner and are never the same again. Having been given the wedding gift for Ryosuke’s former bride-to-be and finding that it contained shoes she was wishing for, Mikan figures fate is trying to tell her something. But Ryosuke seems vexed by Ai’s mysterious beauty, and Mikan must convince him of their fate together before Ai’s charm carries him away.