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Typhoon Club(TAIFU KURABU)

  • Dir: Somai Shinji

  • Japan, 1985, Japanese, 115mins, DCP

  • Cast: Miura Tomokazu, Mikami Yuichi, Kudo Yuki

As strikingly beautiful as it is perplexing, Somai’s anti-coming-of-age drama that embodies the existential intrigues of youth erupted under the allegorical conceit of a typhoon is hailed as the director’s seminal feature, and one of the best Japanese films of the 80s. Unfolded in a series of short and sometimes enigmatic scenes, it immerses in the newfound freedom and tensions of a group of junior high students stranded in the schoolhouse, exposing their hidden desires, budding sexuality and insecurities as the tempest arrives. Facing the anxieties on the cusp of adulthood, there are no simplistic epiphanies; they have to weather the storm to survive.

Nantes Three Continents Festival: Best Director

Tokyo International Film Festival: Tokyo Grand Prix

Kinema Junpo Top Ten: #4

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In-theatre Screening

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The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.

The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.