Yoko meets a transfer student when she is isolated by her junior high school classmates.
Acting
Morikawa's silent suffering will wreck you in under 20 minutes.
Direction
Kanai makes every hallway feel like a trap.
Director
Junichi Kanai
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Japanese 'ijime' (bullying) cinema often focuses on systemic silence; this short distills it to pure relational violence.
Aoi Morikawa was 14 during filming, same age as her character — the director used her actual school uniform.
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