Typhoon Club
“We're in the gym at midnight, we're in the eye of the typhoon!”
Drama
Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the 5-day period before, during, and after a ferocious, seemingly liberating typhoon, which six of the students endure while marooned in their school.
VIBE
A raw, unflinching look at teenage despair. This film feels like a suffocating, yet strangely cathartic, storm of adolescent angst and existential dread, amplified by the oppressive atmosphere of a school trapped by nature.
bleaknihilisticmelancholicangstyslow-burnarthousecharacter-drivengrittynaturalisticadolescencenihilismdisillusionmentcoming-of-age
depressionadolescencenihilismclassroompessimismjunior high schooltyphoonteenage angstjapanese junior high schooler
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