FROM THE DIRECTOR OF ‘KAMIKAZE GIRLS’ AND ‘MEMORIES OF MATSUKO’.
Written and directed by Nakashima, Confessions was selected as Japan’s official entry in the Best Foreign Film category of the 83rd Annual Academy Awards and was the winner of the awards for Best Film, Best Screenplay and Best Director (Tetsuya Nakashima) at the 34th Japanese Academy Awards earlier this year, a well as the recent 30th Hong Kong Film Awards where the movie won the Best asian movie of the year.
Reigning in his impulse to create surreal candy-coloured worlds full of chaos and confusion, with Confessions Nakashima opts instead for an intense drama throbbing with dark emotions and powered by a savage central performance.
Takako Matsu (K-20: Legend Of The Mask) stars as Yuko Moriguchi, a middle-school teacher whose four-year-old daughter is found dead. Shattered, she finally returns to her classroom only to become convinced that two of her students were responsible for her daughter’s murder. No one believes her, and she may very well be wrong, but she decides, nevertheless, that it’s time to take her revenge. What happens next is all-out psychological warfare waged against her students in an attempt to force them into confessing what she knows in her heart to be true: they are guilty and must be punished.
Brilliantly building the psychological tension from the film’s very start before pulling out all the stops for a devastating and explosive finale, Nakashima has produced what is arguably his most mature and impressive work to date. A superb script, excellent performances from a fine cast and a perfectly pitched soundtrack (that includes tracks by Radiohead, acclaimed Japanese experimental rock band, Boris, and this year’s Mercury Prize winners, The XX) make Confessions one of the most original and impressive films of the year.
Read our Review HERE
We Have 3 Copies of CONFESSIONS To give away on DVD, answer the following Question:
Q.Confessions won what prestigious award last week at the Hong Kong Film Awards?
Deadline for the competition is :Tuesday 3rd May (2359hrs)
Terms & Conditions
- All enteries must from UK
- You must be 15 years and over to enter the Peoples Movies/Cinehouse has right to refuse entry if suspicous
- deadline for comp is Tuesday 3rd May (2359hrs)
- one entry per household
- Third Window Films, Peoples Movies/Cinehouse have the right to change,alter or cancel the above comp with no notice.
- judges say is final
- all winners will be picked at random
DVD Details:
Disc One
Full Movie
Disc Two
- “Final Confession” by Tetsuya Nakashima
- “Real Confessions” by Students
- Interview with Tetsuya Nakashima
- Theatrical trailer
- Trailers of Other Third Window Releases
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