, also known as ''High School Big Panic'' and ''Panic in High School'', is a 1978 Japanese youth
suspense
Suspense is a state of mental uncertainty, anxiety, being undecided, or being doubtful. In a dramatic work, suspense is the anticipation of the outcome of a plot or of the solution to an uncertainty, puzzle, or mystery, particularly as it aff ...
action film directed by
Gakuryū Ishii and .
The film is a
remake
A remake is a film, television series, video game, song or similar form of entertainment that is based upon and retells the story of an earlier production in the same medium—e.g., a "new version of an existing film". A remake tells the same ...
of a film of the same name released the year before and also directed by Ishii.
It was released in Japan on August 19, 1978.
Plot
A student goes on a shooting rampage and takes hostages in his own school.
Cast
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Atsuko Asano
is a Japanese actress.
, sponichi.co.jp; accessed September 3, 2015. Upon marrying Tsutomu Uozumi, a reputed ...
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Minoru Uchida
*Shigeru Yamamoto
Reception
On ''Midnight Eye'', Nicholas Rucka calls it "a funky late 70s film with a knock-out soundtrack, AWOL snap zooms, and more shrieks than should rightly be in anything but a horror movie."
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References
External links
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''Panic High School''
at Movie Walker
''Panic High School''
at KINENOTE
1978 action films
1978 films
Films directed by Sōgo Ishii
Japanese action films
Remakes of Japanese films
Nikkatsu films
1970s Japanese films
1970s Japanese-language films
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