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August in the Water
Why this pick
Its drifting teenage perspective, humid summer setting and mysterious natural disturbances extend Typhoon Club’s feeling of adolescence becoming suddenly strange and elemental.
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MOVIE1985 1h 55m JPN
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A powerful wind picks up over a small town near Tokyo. A typhoon is approaching as the students are on their way to school.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Tomiko Ishii
Katsue Yagisawa
Toshinori Omi
Kobayashi
Youki Kudoh
Rie Takami