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Cromaty High School

Yudai YAMGUCHI

Japan2005 85min Digi-Beta Color

Synopsis

Kamiyama Kozy is a freshman in a high school. He doesn't realize that the school is the worst, with many bad students. He just wants to go to the same school with Yamamoto Ichiro, who rescued him when he was a junior-high student. In this school, smoking, drinking and eating pencils off the floor are considered nothing. Basically, it's a ghetto school with losers and delinquents. Realizing this, he wants to change his school even if no one helps him out, and his strong sense of justice is fired up. He makes some friends who hang out together. Hayasido shinjiro has the weakest head in the lower-level school. Maedo Akira does not feel his being because he has common sense. Their lives in the school seem to be ok, but an accident happens during a school trip to Kyushu. The plane where the students are riding is hijacked. The popular comic book is made as an animation. Nobody expected that the film’s original source is a comic book. The casting, which fits the original, was difficult.

Diretor

Yudai YAMGUCHI

Born in 1971. After finishing his studies at the Japan Film School, he directed short films. He won successive awards at the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Indis Movie Festival and his movie Battlefield Baseball  won the grand prize at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival.