Comedy

Teiichi -Battle of Supreme High-

帝一の国

Directed by: Akira Nagai
2017 / 118 minutes / Recommended for aged 12+

OUT-SMART, OUT-BRIBE, OUT-LAST: TEIICHI AKABA FOR STUDENT COUNCIL PRESIDENT!

Screened as part of JFF 2017

Battle of Supreme High is a story of power, brimming with factions, alliances, strategy, sabotage, and dossiers of incriminating information—set not in the world of international politics but in an exclusive boys’ high school. Kaitei High, an incubator school for politicians and military, is a highly regimented place. Its school council is an extreme and Machiavellian world, a complex microcosm of society. In a nutshell: it’s crazy!

The stakes of failure are high, as the bright, ambitious freshman Teiichi Akaba (Masaki Suda; Princess Jellyfish, Destruction Babies) knows. If he wants to become Prime Minister of his own country one day, he needs to conquer Kaitei High’s Student Council first.

Teiichi prepares to do whatever it takes, casting his pride—and inhibitions—away, to become the next SC President’s right-hand man. However, his obsessive pursuit of power alienates Mimiko, his long-suffering girlfriend, and Dan, his new friend in school.