The Drifting Classroom

July. 11,1987      
Rating:
5.5
Trailer Synopsis Cast

An entire Japanese international grade school—and all within—are mysteriously transported to a foreboding desert wasteland. As the story unfolds, the diminishing student body weathers this apocalyptic crisis while searching for clues about their surroundings, and dealing with psychological breakdown and dangerous exterior forces.

Yasufumi Hayashi as  Sho Takamatsu
Kiwako Harada as  Kazuko
Yuki Kitazume as  Tatsuya Fugiki
Nenji Kobayashi as  Yoshio
Kaho Minami as  Midori
Yoshiko Mita as  Emiko
Toshie Negishi as  TV Reporter
Toshinori Omi as  Sekiya
Etsushi Takahashi as  Dr. Jackie Yamatojima
Aiko Asano as  Ayumi

Reviews

PodBill
1987/07/11

Just what I expected

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Moustroll
1987/07/12

Good movie but grossly overrated

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Matialth
1987/07/13

Good concept, poorly executed.

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Janae Milner
1987/07/14

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

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claytonian-1
1987/07/15

I voted 10 for excellent, but let me be clear; this movie is bad in the best possible ways. Almost Manos, Hands of Fate bad. You will laugh your self hoarse. The movie really is confused about itself; it doesn't know whether it is a horror movie or a light-hearted kids movie. And what ever happened to the adults? We only really see one or two die. they just disappear. The plot holes only add to the hilarity. The ending of the movie is the funniest part, though to its poor Japanese writer, it was probably very touching before he translated it to English.Man, I would love to interview Arthur Johnson or some of the other stars from this movie to see what the bilingual process of movie making is like. That would be A-grade movie blog material.

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Fliction
1987/07/16

Hello,I was in the movie too but only as an extra. I was part of the group of kids from NAS Kamiseiya & Atsugi. It was a great learning experience and lots of fun. Everyone from the Director on down was polite and energetic. I'm hoping to get lucky and get the movie again because I gave a copy to my friend to record before I left Japan but never got it back. I remember the person who played Kenny and was glad to see someone had at least left comment on the movie :D When we saw it on opening night I remember seeing several people get emotional towards the end of the movie. Was really good to see that everyone's effort had impressed the

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dauber2
1987/07/17

I am seriously biased about this movie as I was in it. My character piggy was a great comical relief as the schools' world became a sandy mess as they were catapulted into the future. So of course I would rate this movie a ten

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Fenix-8
1987/07/18

The filming of it was fun and a great learning experience for me. My family and I watched the premiere on opening night in Tokyo, Japan. The movie is interesting in storyline content, and one that leaves the ending to the viewer. Its Science Fiction content would leave any open minded writer the room to expand and possibly create another world within that the character's are thrust into. It is about a band of kids who attend an international school. An unusal warp gate pulls them into an unknown future, and one that isn't so friendly in the beginning. It deals with a boy who must break away from the ties of being irresponsible, to lead the survivors. As I said, the ending is left to the viewer. And for the time period that the movie was released, left a couple of tears trailing from audience members.

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