Typhoon Club
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1h 54m
Directed by Shinji Sômai | 115 mins | 1985
Emotionally raw, enormously tender and, finally, tentatively hopeful, Sômai’s breakthrough film—winner of the Grand Prix at the first Tokyo International Film Festival—observes a group of provincial junior high students who find themselves forced to take shelter in their school, unsupervised, as a savage summer storm makes landfall, unleashing their repressed anger and amour as the Biblical deluge threatens to drown their sleepy village.
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