Stars: Takayuki Yamada, Howard Harris, Fumi Nikaidô, Shôta Sometani, Hideaki Itô, Ruth Sundell, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Rio Kanno, Yukito Nishii, Ken’ichi Takitô, Daniel Genalo, Noriko Nakagoshi, Erina Mizuno, Fujiko Kojima, Kento Hayashi | Written and Directed by Takashi Miike
I learnt from watching Audition that you never take Takashi Miike movies at face value, he won’t let you. That movie was my introduction into the twisted world of the director, and this is the reason he has quickly become one of my favourites. From horror to gangsters, historical and even school movies like Crows Zero he shows a flexibility and an ability to bring fun to his work, while also masterfully handling the extremes. Lesson of Evil is a movie that risks coming across as boring especially in the first half when it is setting the scene for the violence to come. Whether you find it dull or the characters interest you,...
I learnt from watching Audition that you never take Takashi Miike movies at face value, he won’t let you. That movie was my introduction into the twisted world of the director, and this is the reason he has quickly become one of my favourites. From horror to gangsters, historical and even school movies like Crows Zero he shows a flexibility and an ability to bring fun to his work, while also masterfully handling the extremes. Lesson of Evil is a movie that risks coming across as boring especially in the first half when it is setting the scene for the violence to come. Whether you find it dull or the characters interest you,...
- 9/30/2014
- by Paul Metcalf
- Nerdly
Lesson of the Evil
Written by Takashi Miike
Directed by Takashi Miike
Japan, 2012
Few things in life are as shocking or unsettling as the betrayal of someone in whom one’s profound trust was invested. Close friends and relatives are two prime examples, but so are figures, such as priests (who have been caught in the spotlight for very un-Christian acts in recent years) and teachers. Just as school boards put their trust in an employee to educate, so to do the students put their trust in the teacher as a beacon of knowledge and even guidance. A teacher that has anything but the well being of the students is a frightening idea, one that infamous director Takashi Miike takes to an extreme in Lesson of the Evil.
Seiji Hasumi (Hideaki Itô) is a teacher like no other at Shinko Academy. Having been under its employment for just over a year,...
Written by Takashi Miike
Directed by Takashi Miike
Japan, 2012
Few things in life are as shocking or unsettling as the betrayal of someone in whom one’s profound trust was invested. Close friends and relatives are two prime examples, but so are figures, such as priests (who have been caught in the spotlight for very un-Christian acts in recent years) and teachers. Just as school boards put their trust in an employee to educate, so to do the students put their trust in the teacher as a beacon of knowledge and even guidance. A teacher that has anything but the well being of the students is a frightening idea, one that infamous director Takashi Miike takes to an extreme in Lesson of the Evil.
Seiji Hasumi (Hideaki Itô) is a teacher like no other at Shinko Academy. Having been under its employment for just over a year,...
- 7/21/2013
- by Edgar Chaput
- SoundOnSight
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