94 minutes
8/19/1978
A parable about the inefficiency and anachronism of the Japanese educational system, which places an unusually large amount of importance on cramming for university entrance examinations, Panic High School is about the suicide of a high school student and its ensuing fallout at his school. When one of his classmates becomes frustrated with the math teacher's lack of sensitivity to the suicide, the student steals a rifle, returns to school, aerates the teacher's chest and then holds members of his class captive. This leads to an aggressive standoff with the police and lots of shots of his parents crying and bowing in shame, totally mortified.
Shigeru Yamamoto
as Jono Yasuhiro
Miyoko Akaza
as Jono Hiroko
Yoshirō Aoki
as Kurita
Seiji Endō
Eimei Esumi
as Yoneshige
Yudai Ishiyama
as Kojima
Shigeru Izumiya
Chōichirō Kawarasaki
as Ogata
Akio Kuwasaki
as Baba
Junko Miyashita
as Murakami tomoyo
Akira Takahashi
as Hirose
Minoru Uchida
as Kobayashi
Koichi Ueda
as Yamauchi
Sakae Umezu
as Jono Antaro
Atsuko Asano
as Murakami