Soon after being named the new leader of his high school's gang system, Kujo grows bored with the violence and hatred that surround him. He wants desperately to abandon his post… but his once-enviable position of power has a strange way of making him feel powerless.
Direction
Toyoda's suffocating atmosphere, like school as purgatory.
Acting
Matsuda's dead eyes carry the whole damn film.
Cinematography
Rooftop shots that make freedom look like falling.
Director
Toshiaki Toyoda
Ryuhei Matsuda
Kujo
Hirofumi Arai
Aoki
Sousuke Takaoka
Yukio
Yuta Yamazaki
Ohta
Shugo Oshinari
Yoshimura
Eita Nagayama
Obake / Ghost
Kiyohiko Shibukawa
Kee (Leader of Rival School Gang)
Takashi Tsukamoto
Freshman in Baseball Club
Onimaru
Suzuki
Kyoko Koizumi
Kiosk Woman
Mame Yamada
Hanada-Sensei
Ōmiya Ichi
Guidance Counselor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Toyoda shot this during Japan's 'lost decade,' capturing a generation of youth with no future to rebel toward.
The Russian roulette rooftop game wasn't in the original manga—Toyoda invented it, and it became the film's devastating centerpiece.
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