Confessions

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From the director of Kamikaze Girls and Memories of Matsuko
Certificate: 15
Running Time: 107 mins
Retail Price: £19.99
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Content Type: Movie

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.

Special Features:
"Final Confession" by Tetsuya Nakashima
"Real Confessions" by Students
Interview with Tetsuya Nakashima
Theatrical trailer
Trailers of Other Third Window Releases

Video Tracks:
1.85:1 widescreen 1080p

Audio Tracks:
DTS-HD MA Japanese

Subtitle Tracks:
English

Directed By:
Tetsuya Nakashima

Written By:


Starring:
Takako Matsu
Masaki Okada
Yoshino Kimura
Mana Ashida
Kaoru Fujiwara
Kai Inowaki
Sora Iwata
Daichi Izumi
Karin Katô
Takuya Kusakawa
Ayaka Miyoshi
Hiroki Nakajima
Yukito Nishii
Hotaru Nomoto
Rena Nônen
Naoya Shimizu
Tsutomu Takahashi
Makiya Yamaguchi
Kasumi Yamaya
Ayuri Yoshinaga

Music From:
Toyohiko Kanahashi

Director of Photography:
Masakazu Ato
Atsushi Ozawa

Editor:
Yoshiyuki Koike

Producer:
Yûji Ishida
Genki Kawamura
Yoshihiro Kubota
Yutaka Suzuki

Executive Producer:
Minami Ichikawa

Distributor:
Third Window Films

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