Devastated at the death of her four-year-old daughter, a grieving middle school teacher is horrified to discover that her students aren't as innocent as she thinks.
Direction
Nakashima turns a classroom into a slow-motion nightmare.
Editing
Rashomon structure that weaponizes perspective shifts.
Score
Radiohead cover that will haunt your Spotify for weeks.
Director
Tetsuya Nakashima
Takako Matsu
Yuko Moriguchi
Masaki Okada
Yoshiteru Terada
Yoshino Kimura
Naoki's Mother
Yukito Nishii
Shuya Watanabe
Kaoru Fujiwara
Naoki Shimomura
Ai Hashimoto
Mizuki Kitahara
Naoki Ichii
Yusuke Hoshino
Kai Inowaki
Yuma Maekawa
Yuiko Kariya
Runa Miura
Naoya Shimizu
Tadashi Kanzaki
Non
Shuka Kiritani
Hotaru Nomoto
Saki Matsukawa
Ayaka Miyoshi
Ayaka Tsuchida
Kasumi Yamaya
Yukari Naito
Ayuri Yoshinaga
Asuka Nonaka
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The novel's author Kanae Minato was a housewife who won a mystery writing contest; this was her debut.
The film weaponizes Japan's 2004 revised Juvenile Law, which protected under-14 offenders from criminal charges—making Yuko's extralegal revenge legally inevitable.
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