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SCHOOL IN THE CROSSHAIRS
1981
Director
Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
Ryôichi Takayanagi
Masami Hasegawa
Miyoko Akaza
Starring
Hiroko Yakushimaru
Runtime
90 minutes
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Director Nobuhiko Obayashi’s first groundbreaking idol picture is a dazzling mix of psycho special effects and dreamy artifice—a stylistic flair perfected in Obayashi’s debut HOUSE, now utilized for the onset of an alien invasion.
Ordinary schoolgirl Yuka’s (Hiroko Yakushimaru) new term comes to an odd start when she inexplicably stops an accident by using latent psychic powers. Troubled by her newfound abilities, Yuka also senses a strange force start to take hold of the school, with students turning into mind-controlled fascists, patrolling school halls, stifling dissent and mandating the re-education of freethinkers. A psychotronic fantasy forged into a young girl’s destiny to defend the planet, SCHOOL IN THE CROSSHAIRS is a cosmic overload of extraterrestrial tyrants, preternatural powers and Obayashi’s uniquely adroit filmmaking abilities, underlaid with an existential cry for free will.
Ordinary schoolgirl Yuka’s (Hiroko Yakushimaru) new term comes to an odd start when she inexplicably stops an accident by using latent psychic powers. Troubled by her newfound abilities, Yuka also senses a strange force start to take hold of the school, with students turning into mind-controlled fascists, patrolling school halls, stifling dissent and mandating the re-education of freethinkers. A psychotronic fantasy forged into a young girl’s destiny to defend the planet, SCHOOL IN THE CROSSHAIRS is a cosmic overload of extraterrestrial tyrants, preternatural powers and Obayashi’s uniquely adroit filmmaking abilities, underlaid with an existential cry for free will.