I subtitled the trailer for Tetsuya Nakajima's latest, highly praised film "Confessions" ("Kokuhaku"). A shocking but great film. I'm pretty sure it's due for release in England but no North American plans yet...
Confessions (Kokuhaku (告白)) is a 2010 Japanese drama film directed by Tetsuya Nakashima.
Yuko Moriguchi (Takako Matsu), a junior high teacher, announces she will resign. She reveals that her daughter, Manami, was killed by two pupils in her class, whom she dubs "Student A" and "Student B". Her disclosure of their behavior soon reveals their identities. She admits injecting her dead husband's HIV contaminated blood into the milk cartons that the murderers have just drunk from. The rest of the movie describes the aftermath of this event in a series of first-person narratives from the two students, Moriguchi, and others.
A new enthusiastic teacher is appointed. Student A continues to attend classes but B has developed psychiatric problems. It is revealed that Student A, who planned the murder, did not actually kill Moriguchi's daughter by electrocution; instead she drowned because student B threw her into the pool.
Student B is worried that he will soon die from AIDS and refuses to clean himself, as he equated the smell of untamed hair and body odor to being alive. His mom tries to help but fails as Student B reacts violently to her gestures and shuts himself in his room. It is revealed later that Student B killed Manami on purpose, as a gesture to validate himself in the eyes of Student A, whom he considers his only friend. His mother eventually realizes that her once good and kind son has transformed into an unknown monster. Seeing no hope, she decides to end their lives, but in the ensuing scrap, she is killed by her son, who is captured by the police. ...................
