The read
A Balasaur Score of 72 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 6.9/10, Rotten Tomatoes 83%. Critics rate it 14 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 74% of the 1,365 1980s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes83%
Critics rate it 14 points higher than audiences do.
71 audience votes
Key crew
- Shinji SōmaiDirector
- Yuji KatoWriter
- Shigeaki SaegusaOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Tomokazu MiuraTeacher Umemiya
- Yuichi MikamiKyoichi Mikami
- Shigeru BenibayashiKen Shimizu
- Toshiyuki MatsunagaAkira Yamada
- Youki KudohRie Takami
- Yuka ÔnishiMichiko Omachi
- Tomoko AizawaYasuko Miyata
- Ryuko TendohYumi Mori
- Yuriko FuchizakiMidori
- Makoto SatōHideo
- Tomiko IshiiKatsue Yagisawa
- Minori TeradaKen's Father
Stills
Movies like Typhoon Club
Themes
depressionadolescencenihilismclassroompessimismjunior high schooltyphoonteenage angstjapanese junior high schooler