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Drifting School (1995)

Drifting School poster
Directed by
Junichi Mimura
Genre
speculative fiction film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 24m
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A school building and its students are torn from the present and sent to a barren future world. The children must struggle to survive in a hostile and empty landscape.

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What happens

The Drifting Classroom (漂流教室, Hyōryū Kyōshitsu) is a Japanese horror manga series written and illustrated by Kazuo Umezu. It was serialized in the manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from 1972 to 1974, and published as collected tankōbon volumes by Shogakukan. The series follows a school that is mysteriously transported through time to a post-apocalyptic future. In 1987, The Drifting Classroom was adapted into a live-action film directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi. An American adaptation, Drifting School, was produced in 1995. The Long Love Letter, a Japanese television drama loosely based on The Drifting Classroom, was released in 2002. The series was critically acclaimed, and won a Shogakukan Manga Award in 1974. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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