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. Just don't choose this movie as a one to watch with your girlfriend on a date.A murder of Crows, a violent eruption of teen superpowers… and oh yes, those epic dogfights in the pelting rain and churning mud. Director Miike puts in his usual high quality behind the chaotic directing style that he has.
But if you understand the plot, it's quite entertaining. The story is definitely not for everybody. Nobody has become the top leader in this high school, but maybe Genji will succeed where no one else have in the past.
The students are all delinquents, but Genji is notch above the rest. The school is the lowest grade high school in the province. Based on a comic by Hiroshi Takahashi, Crows Zero is about Genji Takiya (Shun Oguri) who transfered to Suzuran Boy's School. It's a mindless entertainment, no doubt about that, but it's designed to cater to certain crowd of people that identifies with this sort of story. If the story isn't interesting, the mayhem that goes on the screen keeps things going. If you assemble a staff like Takashi Miike, Shun Oguri, and Meisa Kuroki, you can expect a better than average high school drama.
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