Panic High School

1978 Japanese film
  • August 19, 1978 (1978-08-19)
Running time
94 minutesCountryJapanLanguageJapanese

Panic High School (高校大パニック, Koko Dai Panikku), also known as High School Big Panic and Panic in High School, is a 1978 Japanese youth suspense action film directed by Gakuryū Ishii and Yukihiro Sawada [ja].[1] The film is a remake of a film of the same name released the year before and also directed by Ishii.[2] It was released in Japan on August 19, 1978.

Plot

A student goes on a shooting rampage and takes hostages in his own school.

Cast

  • Atsuko Asano
  • Hideaki Esumi [ja]
  • Minoru Uchida
  • Shigeru Yamamoto

Reception

On Midnight Eye, Nicholas Rucka calls it "a funky late 70s film with a knock-out soundtrack, AWOL snap zooms, and more shrieks than should rightly be in anything but a horror movie."[2]

References

  1. ^ 高校大パニック(1978). allcinema (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved June 15, 2015.
  2. ^ a b Nicholas Rucka (November 5, 2003). "Panic High School". Midnight Eye. Retrieved June 15, 2015.

External links

  • Panic High School at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  • Panic High School at Movie Walker (in Japanese)
  • Panic High School at KINENOTE (in Japanese)
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Films directed by Gakuryū Ishii
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  • The Box Man (2024)


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