Movielogr
Panic in High School (1978)
Directed by Gakuryuu Ishii, Yukihiro Sawada
Overview
A parable about the inefficiency and anachronism of the Japanese educational system, which places an unusually large amount of importance on cramming for university entrance examinations, Panic High School is about the suicide of a high school student and its ensuing fallout at his school. When one of his classmates becomes frustrated with the math teacher’s lack of sensitivity to the suicide, the student steals a rifle, returns to school, aerates the teacher’s chest and then holds members of his class captive. This leads to an aggressive standoff with the police and lots of shots of his parents crying and bowing in shame, totally mortified.
Length 94 minutes
Actors
Shigeru Yamamoto | Miyoko Akaza | Yoshirô Aoki | Seiji Endô | Eimei Esumi | Yudai Ishiyama | Shigeru Izumiya | Choichiro Kawarazaki | Akio Kuwasaki | Junko Miyashita | Akira Takahashi | Minoru Uchida | Kôichi Ueda | Sakae Umezu | Atsuko Asano