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Cromartie High - The Movie 2005

type: Movie

language: Japanese

duration: 85 min

genre: live-action

theme: action

director: Yūdai Yamaguchi

Score: 3 / 10

is a 2005 Japanese live-action film directed by Yūdai Yamaguchi (who had previously made Battlefield Baseball) and starring Takamasa Suga. The film is based on the manga Cromartie High School by Eiji Nonaka which had also been previously adapted as an anime series.

Plot

The film opens with a black-and-white documentary-like section which recounts the checkered past of Cromartie High, built in 1920 and destroyed six times since then. Then on to the present day school full of violence and thugs, a school so desperate for students, they even enroll a gorilla and a bad-tempered robot. Takashi Kamiyama (played by Takamasa Suga), a top student, comes to the school to try to join his hapless friend Yamamoto (Tak Sakaguchi in a cameo role) but Yamamoto can't even pass the entrance exams for Cromartie so Kamiyama is left to go it alone. His efforts to improve the school include starting a Global Defense Force to protect earth from aliens. The aliens when they do arrive are space apes Gori (screenwriter Shōichirō Masumoto in a furry suit) and Lla (both straight out of the 1971 TV series Spectreman) and the plot becomes a series of parodies of science fiction films, martial arts movies and high school comedies among others.

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author	Eiji Nonaka Shōichirō Masumoto
director	Yūdai Yamaguchi
genre	comedy live-action
keywords	1971 1971 in japanese television alien extraterrestrial life gorilla martial arts martial arts movie present day robot science fiction film spectreman thug violence
musicBy	Toshiyuki Omori
producer	Chikako Nakabayashi Shin Torisawa
publisher	Japan Shock King Records Media Suites
theme	action crime high school japanese science fiction