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.
Direction
Sōmai's wandering camera refuses to look away.
Cinematography
Typhoon as visual metaphor—claustrophobic and endless.
Acting
Non-professional teens feel dangerously authentic.
Director
Shinji Sōmai
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in an actual school during summer break; cast lived on set for authenticity.
Released during Japan's 1980s economic boom, the film's despair was considered shocking—critics called it 'unpatriotic.'
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