Kuromati Kōkō The Movie) is a 2005 Japanese surreal comedy satire 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.
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.
[1] English voice cast Cromartie High was shown at the 9th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival on July 17, 2005.
[1][2] The movie was released theatrically in Japan on July 23, 2005 by Media Suites[3] and the Japanese DVD was issued on January 2, 2006 by King Records (キングレコード).
"[2] However, Josh Ralske at AllMovie was disappointed by director Yamaguchi's "haphazard approach to his source material" and lack of focus but does say the film "provides a few genuinely clever and amusing off-the-wall moments".