A group of junior high school must find out the truth of their classmate's death is he was killed by someone or committed suicide.
Acting
Fujino's controlled fury anchors every scene she's in.
Writing
Adults written as antagonists without cartoon villainy.
Direction
Narushima trusts teenage faces to carry 149 minutes.
Director
Izuru Narushima
Ryoko Fujino
Ryoko Fujino
Mizuki Itagaki
Kazuhiko Kanbara
Anna Ishii
Juri Miyake
Hiroya Shimizu
Shunji Ooide
Miu Tomita
Matsuko Asai
Koki Maeda
Kenichi Noda
Ayumu Mochizuki
Takuya Kashiwagi
Reika Nishihata
Mariko Kurata
Jiei Wakabayashi
Yukio Sakisaka
Machiko Ono
Ryoko Fujino (adult)
Haru Kuroki
Emiko Moriuchi
Hiromi Nagasaku
Mirai Miyake
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The entire cast underwent actual mock trial training to make courtroom scenes authentic.
Based on Miyuki Miyabe's novel, which sparked debate about Japan's juvenile law and school bullying accountability in the 1990s.
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