School in the Crosshairs / High-Brow/Low-Brow/Uni-Brow

dir: Nobuihko Obayashi - 1981 - 1 hr 30 min

Mitamura Yuka is a normal, shy high school student. Except for the fact that she has psychic powers. When a new student with similar powers begins to show her skills, creating a force of psychic Nazi student enforcers, Yuka and her friends vow to stop her. One part Shojo Manga and one part SCANNERS at a highhhschool Nobuhiko Obayashi brings his visual madness from HOUSE with an emotional core of adolescence, finding oneself, and fighting authoritarianism.

High-Brow/Low-Brow/Uni-Brow is a monthly film series programmed by Andrew Linn dedicated to exploring films from every corner of taste and seeing what they have to say with each other.

Host or Publisher Stray Cat Film Center