Typhoon Club

Name: Typhoon Club
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: December 12, 1986
Duration: 115 min
Cast: Kaori Kobayashi, Saburô Date, Shigeru Benibayashi, Tomiko Ishii, Tomokazu Miura

1986

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Cinema Guild | Release Date: December 12, 1986 | Not Rated

Starring: Kaori Kobayashi, Saburô Date, Shigeru Benibayashi, Tomiko Ishii, Tomokazu Miura, Toshinori Omi, Toshiyuki Matsunaga, Youki Kudoh, Yuichi Mikami, Yuka Ohnishi

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Winner of the Grand Prix at the first Tokyo International Film Festival in 1985.

Summary: Typhoon Club is widely regarded as the seminal film of director Shinji Somai’s career. A work of raw, elemental power, it follows an ensemble of junior high students in a provincial town, beset by a summer-y malaise as a typhoon looms. When the storm makes landfall, the teens find themselves holed up in their school unsupervised, whileTyphoon Club is widely regarded as the seminal film of director Shinji Somai’s career. A work of raw, elemental power, it follows an ensemble of junior high students in a provincial town, beset by a summer-y malaise as a typhoon looms. When the storm makes landfall, the teens find themselves holed up in their school unsupervised, while another classmate (Yuki Kudo) disappears alone on a harrowing trek to the big city. Set adrift in a world suddenly unmoored, the students let loose their pent-up angst and burgeoning passions in a series of propulsive, phantasmic scenes—part apocalypse, part utopia—as the deluge rages on into the night. Observed in daring long takes, director Somai gives material form to the students’ turbulent inner lives. When day breaks and the rains let up, the youngsters open their eyes to a world in ruins—or a world renewed. [Cinema Guild]… Expand

Director: Shinji Sômai

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 115 min

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Vincent Canby

The narrative unfolds in a series of short, sometimes enigmatic scenes that have the effect of a series of simple declarative sentences. They describe the action without ever interpreting it. After a while, one realizes that there really isn't an awful lot to interpret. Read full review

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