Confessions (2010) ( Kokuhaku )

Confessions (2010) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Kokuhaku
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Japanese ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
106 min + 70 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2010 and produced in:
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Tetsuya Nakashima

Written By:
Kanae Minato
Tetsuya Nakashima

Actors:
Takako Matsu ..... Yuko Moriguchi
Yoshino Kimura ..... Yuko Shimomura (Naoki's mother)
Masaki Okada ..... Yoshiteru Terada
Yukito Nishii ..... Shuya Watanabe
Kaoru Fujiwara ..... Naoki Shimomura
Makiya Yamaguchi ..... Masayoshi Sakuranomiya
Mana Ashida ..... Manami Moriguchi (Yuko's Daughter)
Tsutomu Takahashi ..... Mr. Tokura
Kai Inowaki ..... Takahiro
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: ..... 1-nen B-kumi student
Sora Iwata ..... 1-nen B-kumi student
Daichi Izumi ..... 1-nen B-kumi student
Karin Katô ..... Ayaka
Takuya Kusakawa ..... 1-nen B-kumi student
Ayaka Miyoshi
Hiroki Nakajima

Synopsis:

Takako Matsu (K-20: Legend Of The Mask) plays a middle-school teacher whose four-year-old daughter is found dead. Shattered, she finally returns to her classroom only to become convinced that two of her students were responsible for her daughter's murder. No one believes her, and she may very well be wrong, but she decides, nevertheless, that it's time to take her revenge. What happens next is all-out psychological warfare waged against her students in an attempt to force them into confessing what she knows in her heart to be true: they are guilty and must be punished. Brilliantly building the psychological tension from the film's very start before pulling out all the stops for a devastating and explosive finale, Tetsuya Nakashima (Kamikaze Girls) has produced what is arguably his most mature and impressive work to date. A superb script, excellent performances from a fine cast and a perfectly pitched soundtrack (that includes tracks by Radiohead, acclaimed Japanese experimental rock band, Boris, and this year's Mercury Prize winners, The XX) make Confessions one of the most original and impressive films of the year.

A seventh grade teacher stands powerless in front of her class, an undisciplined tangle of thirteen-year-olds playing with their cellphones, shouting at each other and simply not paying attention. As the teacher addresses the children, her voice becomes gradually more and more chilling and disturbing. She announces that she is going to leave the school at the end of the month. Overwhelmed by the death of her daughter, she cannot work any longer because she knows her child was killed by two of her own students. The murderers are too young to be tried for their crimes and the teacher will not reveal their names, nor turn them in. Post-traumatic shock and detachment seem to have granted her a searing lucidity, and her revenge will be painfully pure.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 08 May, 2011.

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