Typhoon Club
We're in the gym at midnight, we're in the eye of the typhoon!
1985 · 1h 55m · N/A
Drama
Directed by
Shinji Sōmai
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Shinji Sōmai Director
- Tomokazu Miura as Teacher Umemiya
- Yuichi Mikami as Kyoichi Mikami
- Shigeru Benibayashi as Ken Shimizu
- Toshiyuki Matsunaga as Akira Yamada
- Youki Kudoh as Rie Takami
- Yuka Ônishi as Michiko Omachi
- Yuka Ohnishi as Michiko Omachi
- Tomoko Aizawa as Yasuko Miyata
- Ryuko Tendoh as Yumi
- Minori Terada Cast
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