Aku no kyôten (2012) 6.7
A popular high school teacher concocts an extreme plan to deal with the rise of bullying and bad behavior among the student body. Director:Takashi Miike |
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Aku no kyôten (2012) 6.7
A popular high school teacher concocts an extreme plan to deal with the rise of bullying and bad behavior among the student body. Director:Takashi Miike |
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Takayuki Yamada | ... |
Tetsuro Shibahara
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Howard Harris | ... |
Chief Trading Officer
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Hideaki Itô | ... |
Seiji Hasumi
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Fumi Nikaidô | ... |
Reika Katagiri
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Shôta Sometani | ... |
Keisuke Hayami
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Ruth Sundell | ... |
Stock Trader
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Erina Mizuno | ... |
Miya Yasuhara
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Mitsuru Fukikoshi | ... |
Masanobu Tsurii
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Yukito Nishii | ... |
Kakeru Takagi
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Daniel Genalo | ... |
Stock Trader
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Mayu Matsuoka | ... |
Satomi Shirai
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Rio Kanno | ... |
Yuzuka Takahashi
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Takehiro Hira | ... |
Takeki Kume
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Jab | ... |
Clay Chambers
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Kaoru Fujiwara |
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A popular high school teacher concocts an extreme plan to deal with the rise of bullying and bad behavior among the student body.
As psycho-killer movies go "Lesson of the Evil" is up there with the best of them. It's by the Japanese horror maestro Takashi Miike and is set for the most part around a school where handsome young teacher Hasami, (Hideaki Ito), has his own somewhat extreme methods of dealing with rule-breakers. Miike's genius is to treat everything so matter- of-factly the film is almost banal to begin with before letting rip. Although extremely violent, this isn't torture porn but a brilliant slow-burner than builds to a fairly devastating and disturbing climax. I certainly can't see this playing in parts of America where school shootings have become almost common place. By making the villain someone who, in another film. should have been the hero Miike neatly subverts the genre, (think "Dexter"). There's also a nice self- depreciating streak of humour running through the picture, not to mention several great recordings of 'Mack the Knife'. Excellent, if very unnerving.