UW Cinematheque - International Discoveries
Typhoon Club | Japan | 1985 | DCP | 115 min. | Japanese with English subtitles Director: Shinji Somai
Event Details
Date
Thursday, July 11, 2024
Time
7 p.m.
Location
4070 Vilas Hall
Description
Cast: Yuichi Mikami, Yuki Kudo, Shigeru Kurebayashi
When a typhoon makes landfall, a group of junior high students are stranded inside their school, while their classmate (Mystery Train’s Yuki Kudo) runs away to Tokyo. Winner of the Grand Prix at the first Tokyo Film Festival and voted the 10th best Japanese film of all time in a poll by Kinema Junpo (Japan’s leading film magazine), Typhoon Club is another waiting-to-be-discovered classic by Shinji Somai.
When a typhoon makes landfall, a group of junior high students are stranded inside their school, while their classmate (Mystery Train’s Yuki Kudo) runs away to Tokyo. Winner of the Grand Prix at the first Tokyo Film Festival and voted the 10th best Japanese film of all time in a poll by Kinema Junpo (Japan’s leading film magazine), Typhoon Club is another waiting-to-be-discovered classic by Shinji Somai.
Cost
Free
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