The movie

On an university campus, the students go about their normal business : some practise dance routines while others discuss urban myths or relationship problems. In short, the life of young people, with all their vanity and their tragic carefree attitude. But then these poor students begin to die one by one, suffocating in a painful and unexplained way. The phenomenon spreads and appears unstoppable... After a decade, Japan’s greatest underground film director makes his come-back. Renamed Gakuryû Ishii, the man previously known as Sogo, to whom the NIFFF devoted a retrospective in 2010, has created an absurd, fascinating black comedy. A director who knows how to try something new, to the great delight of film enthusiasts.