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Voted one of the greatest Japanese films of all time, Typhoon Club is regarded as the seminal film of director Shinji Somai. A work of elemental power, it follows an ensemble of junior high students in a provincial town, beset by a summer-y malaise as a typhoon looms.
Italian Premiere | Out Of Competition | PART 2 - A/B side VIBES. Greatest Hits from ‘80s & ‘90s | acknowledgement to SOMAI Shinji > First released in 1985, Somai Shinji’s Typhoon Club has come to be regarded in Japan as a modern masterpiece, ranked number 10 in Kinema Junpo magazine’s list of all-time best Japanese films . Set principally in a provincial junior high school over a five-day period, the film bursts with a febrile energy and delirious excess that go beyond mere realism ...
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.
(spoilers) Japan looks beautiful in the mid-80s caught on film here in director Shinji Somai's "Typhoon Club", a photogenicl though odd long feeling runtime about young teenagers acting out together during a typhoon in presumably outer Tokyo area (one shot shows Harajuku).
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Oct 5, 2023 · Friday, September 8 - Thursday, October 5, 2023. A new 4K restoration supervised by assistant director Koji Enokido! Winner of the Grand Prix at the first Tokyo International Film Festival in 1985, Typhoon Club is widely regarded as the seminal film of director Shinji Somai’s career.
Typhoon Club (japanisch 台風クラブ Taifū kurabu, teilweise im Deutschen Taifun Club) ist ein japanisches Filmdrama des Regisseurs Shinji Sōmai aus dem Jahr 1985. Es geht um eine Gruppe von Jugendlichen, die aufgrund eines aufziehenden Taifuns einen Tag in ihrer Schule verbringen müssen.
