Lesson of the Evil
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| German title | Lesson of the Evil |
| Original title | 悪 の 教 典 (Aku no Kyōten) |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 124 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK no youth approval |
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| Director | Takashi Miike |
| script | Takashi Miike |
| production | Kōji Azuma Tōru Mori Misako Saka |
| music | Kōji Endō |
| camera | Nobuyasu Kita |
| cut | Kenji Yamashita |
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Lesson of the Evil ( Japanese 悪 の 教 典 , Aku no Kyōten , Eng . "Holy Scripture of Evil") is a Japanese literary film adaptation of the slasher genre (2012). The work is based on the novel of the same name by Yūsuke Kishi .
characters
- Mr. Hasumi: English teacher, leading actor
- Mr. Shibahara: PE teacher
- Mr. Tsurii: physics teacher, head of Amateur Radio - Working Group
- Mr. Kume: Art teacher
- The "cheaters" Keisuke, Reika and Yuichiro
- other students Rina, Masahiko, Miya, Tade etc.
- Dave: Hasumis Harvard - fellow student
- Mr. Kiyota: Rina's father
action
Seji Hasumi is a popular and respected English teacher in a Japanese high school . He is committed to his colleagues. So he tries to organize a jammer for the exam time to prevent cheating via SMS . Or if the unpleasant Mr. Kiyota goes to school to get upset about the alleged teasing of his daughter Rina, Mr. Hasumi, of course, on the spot.
He is popular among his students and enjoys the highest levels of trust. When they report to him that his classmate Miya is being sexually harassed by the sports teacher, he investigates personally. Miya thanks him for this and falls in love with him. Tade, the class bully, happened to watch them kiss on the school roof.
Tade has to go
Keisuke, Reika and Yuichiro form a clique. Keisuke has come up with a system to cheat using SMS. However, it already fails the first test because the signal is disturbed. Keisuke suspects his class teacher Mr. Tsurii behind the jammer. He overhears the accusation and rejects any responsibility.
As Mr. Kiyota dies in a house fire, the criminal investigation department visits the school. Apparently it is arson, but no traces of the perpetrator could be secured. In the parking lot, Mr. Tsurii gave the officials the nebulous hint that Mr. Hasumi previously taught at Kitahara High School. What the police don't know: At the same time, there was a series of suicides at this school.
Meanwhile, Mr. Hasumi his wealthy colleague Mr. Kume, who has a gay relationship with one of the students. Enriched by this, he can take Miya to an exquisite apartment with an expensive car. That evening he also casually asks Miya about the internet forums where the students exchange ideas. The next day, posts appeared in a forum claiming Tade was the arsonist. This then lashes out wildly in the class. To calm him down, Mr. Hasumi asked him for a drink. However, this is only an excuse to kill him.
In fact, Mr. Hasumi killed his parents at the age of 14 and staged the double murder as a burglary. Regardless of this, Mr. Tsurii him purely intuitive. In a personal conversation with Keisuke, he explains that Mr. Hasumi may be a Janus head . But this conversation is also overheard, which is why Mr. Tsurii soon becomes the victim of a "suicide" and Keisuke disappears in an apparently mysterious way.
final
In another night with Miya, she finds Tade's phone in Mr. Hasumi's bag. He then decides to stage her suicide while preparing for the graduation party at the school. Coincidentally, however, another student and possible witness is there. Without further ado he breaks her neck.
He wants to attach this murder to his colleague Kume, whom he lures to school under a pretext. His cover story provides that he allegedly came to school to judge himself and his forbidden love affair with a hunting rifle. To do this, however, he must also kill everyone else present who could otherwise testify who the true Sagittarius was. In a hunt for his students, he proves his high accuracy and complete lack of empathy . When the police arrive, he is found in handcuffs and records his cover story.
However, Reika and Yuichiro were able to survive with a trick: They put their school uniforms on two of their schoolmates who had been killed and used them to fake their own escape. Mr. Hasumi did not realize that two of his kills were already dead. Because of the two witnesses and because of a tape recording, he is therefore taken away by the police.
Remarks
- There are some allusions to German and Nordic culture in the film: Mr. Hasumi often listens to Mackie Messer’s Moritat . The series of suicides is explained by the Werther Effect . Two ravens in the film are nicknamed Hugin and Munin .
- At the end a possible continuation is suggested: Reika realizes that Mr. Hasumi continues to play with them. Miya, who fell from the roof, survived. The last scene ends with the message "To be continued".
- Mr. Hasumi claims not to kill for fun. In fact, the murders happen out of a logical, only morally unlimited consequence. In contrast, there are his delusions , especially Dave, allegedly a former fellow student and serial killer . He also reappears as a demon in the hunting rifle and as a voice from the off.
- The film is based on a book by Yusuke Kishi that was published in 2010.