Film

Bad Company

4.7

1h 38m

2001

Synopsis

It is 1980. Sadatomo is at a secondary school in a small town. His parents barely take any notice of him. The strict teacher Kobayashi has hung up a 'humanity index' in the classroom, divided into the categories 'delinquents', 'scum' and 'people'. In each category he has hung name-cards of pupils. One day Kobayashi finds out that Sadatomo and his friends have stolen some things from a shop for fun. Their fathers are informed and as punishment, the children have to write a 'self-critical' essay of no less than thirty pages. For the first time, Sadatomo is beaten by his father. Shocked, he writes a piece entitled 'I am an onion', in which the teacher thinks he can detect a first sign of humanity. That is the start of a confusing situation in which it gets hard to distinguish lies, truth, justified self-criticism and opportunist wheeler dealing, even for the boys.

Director

Tomoyuki Furumaya

Trailer

Drama

child abuseeducationshopliftingstrict teachershōwa era (1926-89)

Cast & Crew

Yamato Okitsu

as Kôzu, Sadatomo

Ryosuke Takahashi

as Nimura, Tetsuya

Yuta Nakajima

as Nomura, Shuji

Ken Mitsuishi

as Kôzu, Yoshiyuki (Sadatomo's Father)

Mikio Shimizu

as Professor Kobayashi

Asako Yashiro

as Yoriko

Hiroko Akune

as Yuriko

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