The biggest obstacle to Genji’s mission happens to be Suzuran’s strongest and most dangerous punk Serizawa Tamao and his head-bashing posse of high school hoods. His mission? To vanquish the rival student gangs one by one and earn the title of Suzuran’s top dog – er, crow – and thus prove to his yakuza boss of a father that he has what it takes to inherit the family business. Senior toughie Takiya Genji transfers to the notoriously lawless Suzuran All-Boys’ High School. Oguri Shun, Yamada Takayuki, Yabe Kyosuke, Kiritani Kenta, Takaoka Sousuke, Kaneko Nobuaki, Miura Harumaĭirected by Miike Takashi / Toho Company, 2007 & 2009 Korean director Kim Tae-gyun and Japanese filmmaker Miike Takashi tender two alternate interpretations of this proposition with Volcano High and the Crows Zeros, respectively - all diverting, popcorn-friendly fare, but each bearing the unique and heavily stylized stamp of its maker. The school setting isn’t really the point films like these get made so that teen audiences - ah, those intense little creatures! - can live out their aggressive, hormone-fueled fantasies that continually chafe (futilely, it seems to them) against the carefully imposed strictures of a traditionalistic, “adults rule” society. To describe these types of productions (most rating not lower than PG-15 or its equivalent) as being “about high school life” is like saying that Titanic was about the, um, iceberg. The fact that these stories are set on a high school campus lends a patina of harmlessness to the violent scenarios - even though the plot actually has less to do with academics than with a bunch of overgrown kids fond of rearranging each others’ faces and dislocating random body parts as their after-school routine. You need only transplant the barroom brawling and gangsta-mongering from mainstream action flicks into the tamer, more innocuous environs of an educational institution, and voila! – Battlefield High School. Planet Earth is one too, according to John Travolta’s alien Psychlo character from his 2000 intergalactic flop.Īaaand… so is high school, apparently – a premise that has spawned an entire genre of teen action comedy/dramedy on screens big and small. Love is a battlefield, as Pat Benatar lustily declared in her 1983 song. Get a taste of high school action, J- and K-style.
A murder of Crows, a violent eruption of teen superpowers… and oh yes, those epic dogfights in the pelting rain and churning mud.
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