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.
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
- Cast
- Yamato Okitsu,Ryosuke Takahashi,Asako Yashiro,Yuta Nakajima,Ken Mitsuishi,Hiroko Akune,Mikio Shimizu
- Director
- Tomoyuki Furumaya
- Writer
- Tomoyuki Furumaya
- Producer
- Takenori Sentô
- Cinematography
- Masami Inomoto
- Music
- Masamichi Shigeno
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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