seeking opinions on" typhoon club"

[Aaron Gerow]

>has anybody seen somashinji's "typhoon club"?

Personally, I think it is one of the best Japanese films of the 1980s.  
Somai himself, though still active today, was arguable one of the most 
important directors of the eighties, if only because his long take style 
has continued to be influential.  Typhoon Club skillfully uses those long 
camera movements to express not only the tensions of adolescence, but the 
unease that these movements--and life itself--will suddenly stop.  Thus a 
subtle but moving film about teenage love and death, with great 
performances by Kudo Yuki and Miura Tomokazu.

Aaron Gerow
Yokohama National University
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