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Making its long-awaited debut in US theaters, this anarchic 1980s teen caper from beloved Japanese filmmaker Shinji Sômai follows three high-school students on a madcap quest to rescue their school bully after he's kidnapped by the yakuza. P. P. Rider screens with Typhoon Club as part of Fever Dreams of Youth: Two Films by Shinji Sômai. Â
Voted the 10th best Japanese film of all time in the prestigious Kinema Junpo poll, this wildly compelling and profoundly influential landmark of 1980s teen cinema chronicles five tempestuous days in the life of a group of junior high-school students marooned in their school gymnasium during a storm. Typhoon Club screens with P.P. Rider as part of Fever Dreams of Youth: Two Films by Shinji Sômai.