Koko sasuraiha
High-School Outcasts
- Release Date
- December, 16th, 1970
- Running Time
- 86 min
- Genre
- Feature
- Color
- -
- Screening Format
- -
[ Directed by ]
[ Cast ]
[ Staff ]
- MORISAKI Azuma ── Screenplay
- YOSHIKAWA Kenichi ── Cinematography
- SATO Kiminobu ── Production Design
[ Production Company ]
SHOCHIKU
[ Distributor (Japan) ]
SHOCHIKU
[ Story ]
Tsutomu (Kensaku Morita), an orphan who once stabbed a man, is released from a reformatory and goes to Tottori, on the Japan Sea coast, to enter a high school. On the beach, he meets a young fisherman, Yusuke (Norihiko Yamamoto) also a student of the same school. They become friends and Tsutomu is offered free board at Yusuke's home. At school there is opposition between students and teachers, especially over the installation of the new language laboratory which requires donations from parents.
Led by Tsutomu, Yusuke and Kazuko (Hideko Takehara), a daughter of the head of the school council, students burn text books and blockade the auditorium. But the blockade is easily broken by the police who arrest Yusuke on a false charge. But although he is released, Tsutomu and Yusuke are expelled. Tsutomu, Yusuke and Kazuko then occupy the radio studio at the school to protest their punishment. The police arrive and the three flee to the beach and use an old boat as their shelter. Kazuko announces that she loves the two boys equally and will marry both. While they are sleeping, Kazuko's father arrives with the police to arrest them on charge of kidnapping his daughter. The police arrest Yusuke first, then the boat catches fire. Tsutomu tries to escape from the burning boat to protect Kazuko, but she stabs herself to death.
【Quoted from Unijapan Film Quarterly 1971 14.2】
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