School Day of the Dead
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | School Day of the Dead |
| Original title | Shisha no Gakuensai |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 2000 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Tetsuo Shinohara |
| script |
Teruo Abe Tamami Yamada |
| music | Hajime Mizoguchi |
| camera | Takahide Shibanushi |
| cut | Isao Tomita |
| occupation | |
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School Day of the Dead , also Schoolday of the Dead - To die wants to be learned ( Japanese 死者 の 学園 祭 , Shisha no gakuensai , German "School Festival of the Dead") is a Japanese thriller by director Tetsuo Shinohara from the year 2000, based based on a novel by Jirō Akagawa .
The film was released in Japan on August 5, 2000. In Germany, the premiere took place on December 6, 2004 on DVD and the first broadcast on March 5, 2008 on the pay-TV channel Silverline .
action
Japan, the time-honored Catholic Tezuka Gakuen High School in the present. After the suicide of a classmate, Yūko Yamazaki, classmates of a theater group put on her play "Angel with Blue Eyes" in memory of the deceased. The work takes place in the more recent past and is about a forbidden love between a young music teacher and a married 42-year-old teacher of art history, who suddenly disappears and leads to the suicide of his adolescent lover.
Machiko Yuki, charismatic student and driving force of the local theater group, is fascinated by the love tragedy, as it reminds her of her own suffering. Machiko, the daughter of the art gallery director, is secretly in love with her widowed theater teacher Kurabayashi and therefore forces the theater rehearsals for the upcoming spring festival at her school. Meanwhile, clues from a data carrier that the deceased left behind and information from a hacked school computer lead to the assumption that the literary work seems to have a true core. When Machiko's friend Haruko had a fatal accident, the dismayed Machiko began to investigate on her own. Nevertheless, the mysterious series of deaths does not end. Machiko's friend Mayumi is also murdered later in the plot; a little later the English teacher Thornhill, Yuko's secret lover, hangs himself.
Machiko finally reveals with the support of Koyama, Yūko's twin brother, the machinations of a dubious secret society that trades in counterfeit art that has been blackmailed . She boldly addresses her revelations on stage on the premiere evening in front of invited guests. Even during the staging, the events roll over and those involved reveal themselves. The director of the debt reveals himself as an unscrupulous businessman and double murderer, who evades imminent arrest and chooses suicide. At the end of the film, Machiko says goodbye to her love, the teacher Kurabayashi, with a kiss.
Awards
- 2001: Award in the Best Young Actor category for Kyōko Fukada
- Nikkan Sports Film Awards
- 2000: Award in the Best Young Actor category for Kyōko Fukada
Reviews
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film offered an “unconvincing horror and murder story” which, in addition to a tragic love story, only had “the usual school intrigues” .
Web links
- School Day of the Dead in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Entry in the IMDB
- ^ A b School Day of the Dead in the Lexicon of International Films