Tomorrow I will be seeing Takashi Miike’s latest film For Love’s Sake, a film that mashes a hodgepodge of dramas together, but today I am reveling in the fact that the teaser to his latest blood drenched thriller, Lesson of the Evil (Aku no kyôten), has finally hit the net.
The teaser doesn’t show us much, hence it being a teaser, but what it does show is enough for us to understand exactly what’s going to go down in the film. The teaser starts off with a very charismatic and likable teacher (Hideaki Ito) parading around the school, then cut to 15 seconds later and said teacher whips out a shotgun and blows one of his beloved students away. I don”t know why but I honestly don’t care (though you can find out by reading the synopsis below), all I know is that when school children are trapped in a school with a sociopath, nothing but crazy violence can ensue and we’re talking about Miike violence.
Lesson of the Evil is set to hit Japanese theaters sometime in November as it is still working its way through post production. What does this mean to US audiences? Don’t expect to see this until spring 2013 at the earliest. For now, wet your appetite with the teaser and we’ll keep you updated when a full length trailer surfaces.
Seiji Hasumi (32) is an instructor at Shinko Academy, a private high school. He is a model teacher, extremely popular with the students and well respected by the faculty and the PTA. However, one of the students, Reika Katagiri (17), feels something menacing lurking beneath his shining reputation. Hasumi brilliantly solves one problem after another, from a teacher-student sexual harassment to group cheating to bullying, and starts to take control of the school. Specifically, the boss of the bullies gets expelled because of his violent behavior. A “monster parent” dies at home in a fire started by an arsonist. The problems go away, but Reika is uneasy about the way they are solved. Masanobu Tsurii (55), an unpopular teacher in the school, despises the popular Hasumi. He starts investigating Hasumi’s past and discovers that many people he was involved with have already died. Hasumi, who had hidden listening devices around the school, finds out how Tsurii is looking into his past, so he kills him one day on the train and makes it look like suicide. Hasumi also murders a male student, who was trying to get back at Hasumi for catching him cheat on a test. In his true nature, Hasumi is a psychopath, a man who cannot feel empathy toward other people. Since he was a child, he has killed people who got in his way. He even killed his own parents when they realized what he was doing. Soon, Hasumi becomes physically involved with Miya Yasuhara, a female student who he helped in a sexual harassment incident, and Miya starts to sense his evildoings. Hasumi finds out about Miya’s suspicion and decides that she must be eliminated…
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