Bad Company
- Drama
Overview
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.
Keywords
- child abuse
- education
- strict teacher
- shoplifting
- japanese middle school students
- shōwa era (1926-89)
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- February 1, 2001
- Original language
- Japanese
- Spoken languages
- japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- WOWOW,Bandai Visual,Suncent CinemaWorks,J-Movie Wars,J-Movie Wars, Bandai Visual, Suncent CinemaWorks, WOWOW
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0277119