Confessions (2010)

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Movie
German title Confessions
Original title Kokuhaku ( 告白 )
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 2010
length 106 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Tetsuya Nakashima
script Tetsuya Nakashima
Kanae Minato (template)
production Yūji Ishida
Genki Kawamura
Yoshihiro Kubota
Yutaka Suzuki
music Toyohiko Kanahashi
camera Shoichi Ato
Atsushi Ozawa
cut Yoshiyuki Koike
occupation

Confessions ( Japanese 告白 , Kokuhaku ) is a Japanese psychological thriller by the director Tetsuya Nakashima from 2010. The novel is based on Kanae Minato . In Germany , the film opened in cinemas on July 28, 2011. It was selected as the Japanese entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2011 Oscars and achieved the seventh highest grossing result in Japan in 2010.

action

In the classroom of a seventh grade, the teacher Moriguchi announced on the last day of the school year that she would no longer work as a teacher. She tells of the death of her four-year-old daughter Manami, who drowned in the school pool a few months ago. Moriguchi has since found out that two students from the class are responsible for Manami's death. She explains that she will not take the normal legal process, but that she has already decided on her own revenge because the perpetrators could not expect any punishment due to their young age. She explains that she took HIV- positive blood from Manami's biological father Sakuramiya, who broke up with Moriguchi due to his illness, and added it to the two students' milk cartons. The two students, who believe this form of infection, which is not likely, then reveal themselves through their behavior.

After the spring break, Shuya (Student A), one of the two murderers, is bullied by classmates. Shuya can partly use his possible HIV infection to overcome the harassment at school. Shuya takes a blood test. It turns out he's HIV negative. However, Shuya does not feel relieved, but falls into despair.

Naoki (student B) no longer comes to school. He is afraid of dying from AIDS and does not wash any more. He reacts aggressively to every approach his mother makes. Even the new, committed teacher Terada cannot reach him. Naoki's mother desperately wants to kill her son. A fight ensues in which Naoki finally kills his mother.

Flashbacks show how Shuya is traumatized by a divorce of her parents. He longed for the love of his career-loving mother. Shuya had invented an anti-theft wallet that would distribute electric shocks. Although his invention won a competition, it did not make the front page of a newspaper that instead featured a recent family murder. When Shuya learned that his mother wanted to leave him to remarry, he made a plan to murder Moriguchi's daughter in order to get more attention. Shuya electrocuted Manami, which caused her to pass out. Naoki obviously wanted to impress Shuya and threw little Manami into the pool to prove himself.

The crime is not mentioned in the news because teacher Moriguchi strategically prevented it in order to ultimately take matters into her own hands. Shuya longs for his mother. He kills a classmate who actually took a liking to him. On the last day of school he placed a bomb in the auditorium to commit mass murder of the students. At the end of his speech Shuya tries to activate the ignition with his cell phone, but the explosion does not seem to have materialized. He discovers that the bomb was stolen from under the desk. Shuya receives a call from Moriguchi, who tells him that she previously hid the bomb in his mother's office. Shuya is horrified to find that he has killed his own mother instead of the students and has a crying fit in the auditorium. Moriguchi appears, she now seems to have completed her revenge. After she explains to Shuya that he is now on the way to healing, the film ends with Moriguchi's words "I was just kidding", which Shuya had previously used.

reception

The lexicon of international films described the film as a “furiously staged psychological revenge thriller with surreal elements, which is about a subtly worked out revenge.” It is not blood that flows, but a sweat of fear. In addition, the film touches on taboo or ignored topics such as AIDS , rampages and suicide. The film magazine Cinema gave the film four out of five points and describes it as an "extraordinary thriller drama with a slightly viscous start." In addition, confessions paint a "sobering portrait of a cold-emotional youth." Andreas Banaski from Spiegel Online described the film mostly positively and described it as " pretty hard stuff "for the" normal Central European art cinema goers. "

Awards

The film won four Japanese Academy Awards for Best Picture , Best Director , Best Screenplay, and Best Editing .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mike LeChevallier: Tetsuya Nakashima's "Confessions" lands to Oscar nod. In: Japanator. September 15, 2010, accessed July 28, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Confessions. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed July 28, 2011 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ Confessions. In: Cinema. Retrieved July 28, 2011 (edition 08/11).
  4. ↑ Andreas Banaski: Revenge shocker "Confessions": Decorative misery. In: Spiegel Online . July 28, 2011. Retrieved July 28, 2011 .
  5. ^ Website of the Japan Academy Prize . Retrieved July 28, 2011 (Japanese).