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Panic High School (高校大パニック, Koko Dai Panikku), also known as High School Big Panic and Panic in High School, is a 1978 Japanese youth suspense action film directed by Gakuryū Ishii and Yukihiro Sawada .
Panic High School is about the suicide of a high school student and its ensuing fallout at his school.
Aug 19, 1978 · Koko dai panikku: Directed by Gakuryû Ishii, Yukihiro Sawada. With Shigeru Yamamoto, Atsuko Asano, Miyoko Akaza, Yoshirô Aoki. A high school student rallies his classmates into rebelling violently when the administration refuses to take responsibility for the suicide of one of the students.
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- Action, Drama, Mystery
- Gakuryû Ishii, Yukihiro Sawada
- 1978-08-19
Jun 7, 2013 · A high school student snaps and brings a rifle to school with every intention of using it on his teachers and classmates. Sogo ISHII's debut short film PANIC HIGH SCHOOL was shot on 8mm, but it encompasses much of the rage, the energy and the socio-political concerns that would c... Read all.
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- Masanobu Umezu
- Gakuryû Ishii
Mar 5, 2016 · At its core, Panic High School is satire laying bare the crisis in Japan’s educational system which places undue emphasis on one particular set of exams which will determine the entirety of a person’s life. The teachers are cruel and heartless, little more than cogs in a machine.
Remake of his own, first 8mm film, which played to sold-out Tokyo movie houses back in 1977, “Panic in High School”, is an impressive film, particularly when one considers that Ishii was just 20 years old when he shot it.
Shot on 8mm, the just under 16-minute Panic High School shows all the growing traits of the aesthetics his future films would display. A young man, frustrated with life at school decides to take a gun with him one day.
