Friday, April 16, 2021

259. Panic in the high school (1978)

 

Country: Japan

Directed by Sogo Ishii and Yukihiro Sawada


The first movie of the cult director Sogo Ishii, who made a name in the underground art scene of Japan as a pioneer of the cyberpunk film movement, Panic in the high school is not just an action movie with a lot of fake blood and screaming teenagers who are gunned down. Nor it's a work of pretentious  condemnation of a system that oppress the youth : in contrary, with a quiet, allusive way, it really succeeds to capture the vulnerability of teenagers who are trapped in a world designed by adults, full of norms and expectations, where the good reputation and to climb high in the social rankings are presented as the highest values. With a lot of freshness, simplicity and originality it evokes feelings and memories of this exact vulnerability even to people who didn't grow up in the strict environment of the Japanese society


You can watch the full movie here:

https://youtu.be/wW6bmJiOPUM





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