

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
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.