Typhoon Club

Typhoon Club

1985 · 115 min · JA · 6.6 (32 votes)
Dir. Shinji Sōmai · Starring Tomokazu Miura, Yuichi Mikami, Shigeru Benibayashi, Toshiyuki Matsunaga, Youki Kudoh, Yuka Ônishi · Music Shigeaki Saegusa
Drama

Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the five-day period before, during, and after a ferocious, seemingly-liberating typhoon, which six of the students endure while marooned in their school.

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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.

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