Five teens weaponize bureaucracy against their own school. Chaos has never been so polite.
Yuta is a high school student living in Shizuoka, Japan. His strong sense of justice makes him upset at the politics and bias in school. To change the situation, Yuta, together with four disgruntled friends, devises a plan to influence a mutiny at school.
Direction
Goto's restrained camerawork makes mutiny feel mundane.
Writing
Dialogue captures Japanese institutional passive-aggression perfectly.
Acting
Hamada's simmering Yuta never explodes, and that's the point.
Director
Minami Goto
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film satirizes Japan's strict school hierarchy (senpai-kohai) by showing students weaponizing the very rules meant to control them.
Director Minami Goto was 22 when this premiered at Pia Film Festival, making it a debut about teens by someone barely out of being one.
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