Overworked student Yasuhiro Jono (Shigeru Yamamoto) walks into a gun shop and sees a rifle, which he swiftly steals along with several boxes of ammo.

While his mother attempts to convince him that she will forgive him and try to help him with rebuilding his future, his father yells at him, telling him to give himself up and accept his incoming penalty.

Jono loudly plays a vinyl record to cover up the sounds of him breaking down the exit door, where he forces his two hostages left out of the building; Only Murakami follows him.

The police spot him as he runs down an alleyway, after which he forces his sole hostage to walk up the stairs to the science lab, where they engage in small talk.

Realizing he has nothing left to lose as his sole sympathizer is now dead, Jono starts shooting at the police, at which point they break into the classroom and successfully disarm and arrest him.

In the aftermath of the shooting, the school staff discuss about restarting classes tomorrow, while his parents sorrow about how everything they've worked for their son's academic future has been destroyed.

On Midnight Eye, Nicholas Rucka calls it "a funky late 70s film with a knock-out soundtrack, AWOL snap zooms, and more shrieks than should rightly be in anything but a horror movie.

"[2] In a 2018 interview with Time Out, Ishii admits that he did not think Panic High School was very good, but also commented that creating the film enabled him to achieve what he really wanted to do in cinema.