Typhoon Club (1985)
August 31, 1985
Drama
1h 55m


We're in the gym at midnight, we're in the eye of the typhoon!
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.
Cast & Crew
- Director
- Shinji Sōmai
- Rie Takami Youki Kudoh
- Michiko Omachi Yuka Ônishi
- Teacher Umemiya Tomokazu Miura
- Okabe Saburo Date
- Katsue Yagisawa Tomiko Ishii
- Junko Yagisawa Kaori Kobayashi
- Kobayashi Toshinori Omi
- Ken's Father Minori Terada
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Keywords
- depression
- adolescence
- nihilism
- classroom
- pessimism
- junior high school
- typhoon
- teenage angst
- japanese junior high schooler