Lesson in Murder

Movie

2022

2h 8m

Japanese

Mystery, Drama, Crime

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Lesson in Murder

Movie

2022

2h 8m

Japanese

Mystery, Drama, Crime

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Masaya is a university student, but he attends a school that's not his ideal school. His days are generally gloomy. One day, he receives a letter from serial killer Haimura. He was convicted for nine murders and received the death penalty. Back when Haimura was committing his murders, he ran a bakery store. At that time, Masaya was a middle-school student and a customer at his bakery store. According to the letter, Haimura confesses to having committed eight murders, but he insists that he did not commit the last murder. Masaya begins to investigate the last murder case involving Haimura.

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Cast

Yamato Haimura

Masaya Kakei

Kazuki Kanayama

Ms. Kakei

Woman in Red Jacket

Akari Kano

Kurata

Takiuchi

Kaoru Nezu

Kazuo Kakei

Samura

Soma

Farmer

Directed By: Kazuya Shiraishi

Written By: Ryo Takada (Screenplay), Riu Kushiki (Novel)

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miguelreina says...

2 years ago

[Filmin] In the list of representations of evil that cinema has done, this is perhaps one of the complex ones, adopting different points of view as the story unfolds, playing with the viewer and their expectations while presenting some of the most disturbing scenes scenes of child torture (which raises a questionable perspective on Japanese cinema's obsessive dedication to child suffering, on the other hand). But above all it is revealed as a sinister and well-performed chessboard practiced by Yamato and Masaya, leading to an unpredictable ending.

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manicure

7/10 one year ago

A serial killer on death row asks a misfit university student to find the real assassin behind one of the murders he’s been accused of. Unlike the usual plot where an innocent person has been wrongfully accused of committing a crime, this time we have a man who already confessed the rest of the mu More

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