The Drifting Classroom

Year: 1987

Runtime: 104 mins

Language: Japanese

Director: Nobuhiko Obayashi

FantasyHorror

An entire Japanese international grade school—students and teachers alike—are mysteriously whisked into a foreboding desert wasteland. As the student body shrinks, they endure an apocalyptic crisis, hunt for clues about their surroundings, and struggle with psychological breakdowns while confronting relentless, dangerous external forces.

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