Typhoon club
(DVD or VCD)

Title from sell sheet.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1985.

Special features: Interview with filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa; Interview with actress Yuki Kudo; original Japanese theatrical release trailer; theatrical trailer.

Yuichi Mikami, Yuki Kudo, Tomokazu Miura, Tomoko Aizawa, Shigeru Benibayashi, Saburo Date.

It follows an ensemble of junior high students in a provincial town, beset by a summery malaise as a typhoon looms. When the storm makes landfall, the teens find themselves holed up in their school unsupervised, while another classmate disappears alone on a harrowing trek to the big city, set adrift in a world suddenly unmoored, the students let loose their pent-up angst and burgeoning passions in a series of propulsive, phantasmic scenes, part apocalypse, part utopia as the deluge rages on into the night. When day breaks and the rains let up the youngsters open their eyes to a world in ruins, or a world renewed.

DVD, wide screen (1.85:1), Dolby Digital 2.0 mono.

Japanese dialogue; English subtitles.