Confessions

Directed by: Tetsuya Nakashima

Written by: Tetsuya Nakashima

          Kanae Minato

Starring: Takako Matsu

[Confessions won the awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Editor at the 34^th Japan Academy Prize. It was selected as Japanese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83^rd Awards.] From Wikipedia.

This is a psychological film which is about revenging.

Yuko Moriguchi is a junior high school teacher whose daughter died by accident. But after her investigation, she finds the truth is her daughter killed by two students in her class. So she reveals the truth to all the students in the class in the last day before spring break. And she tells them that the milk they are drinking, she put her husband’s HIV contaminated blood in it. Since that day, she quit from school but her avengement starts. Because of the ADIS virus, every student in that class is very worried about themselves, and they blame on the two students and crowd out them. The class becomes a hell then, the mind of students starts to warp and pervert, and finally the two little killers’ frequent depressions and stress were the prelude to a complete mental breakdown.

Because it’s too violent, the trailer just could be shown on the internet. Its violence is not only reflected in the image, but also hit audience by its beats. Ethics or justice? The process of killer and avenger keeps touching the audience heart during the whole movie.

In my opinion, this is the best Asian movie in 2010.