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School in The Crosshairs
Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1981
Brooklyn SciFi and Cult Epics presents an online screening of director Nobuhiko Obayashi's 1981 Japanese SciFi classic School in the Crosshairs. Nobuhiko Obayashi’s first groundbreaking teenage idol picture is a dazzling mix of special effects and blue-screen artifice—a stylistic flair perfected in Obayashi’s debut House, now utilized for the onset of an alien invasion. Brooklyn SciFi will host an online screening and chat on Saturday, Oct 9th, included with the Festival Digital Pass. Exclusive Blu-ray and DVDs of School in the Crosshairs are available at Cult Epics.
From the director of House (1977) & His Motorbike, Her Island (1986).
Released months before lead Hiroko Yakushimaru’s breakthrough hit Sailor Suit and Machine Gun, Nobuhiko Obayashi’s first groundbreaking teenage idol picture is a dazzling mix of special effects and blue-screen artifice—a stylistic flair perfected in Obayashi’s debut House, now utilized for the onset of an alien invasion. Ordinary schoolgirl Yuka’s (Yakushimaru) new term comes to an odd start when she inexplicably stops an accident by using latent psychic powers. Troubled by her newfound abilities, Yuka also senses a strange force start to take hold of the school, with students turning into mind-controlled fascists, patrolling school halls, stifling dissent and mandating the re-education of freethinkers. A psychotronic fantasy forged into a young girl’s destiny to defend the planet, School in the Crosshairs is a cosmic overload of extraterrestrial tyrants, preternatural powers and Obayashi’s uniquely adroit filmmaking abilities, underlaid with an existential cry for free will.
Blu-ray available as a Cult Epics website Exclusive: Reversible Slipcase art by Sam Smith + Japanese theatrical poster Postcard. Limited Edition of 500.
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