#11. Confessions
Director: This Tetsuya Nakashima
Cast: Takako Matsu, Yoshino Kimura, Masaki Okada, Yukito Nishii, Kaoru Fujiwara, Ai Hashimoto
Distributor: Rights Available.
Buzz: Featured at the New York Asian Film Festival, this had richter scale type implications back home in Japan. Might be the revenge film of the year.
The Gist: Tetsuya Nakashima’s Confessions is one of Japan’s most important films of the year. A stylized mixture of cruelty and compassion, the film spins the dark tale of vengeance of a teacher whose little daughter has been killed by two of her students in seventh grade.
TIFF Schedule: Friday September 17 9:00:00 PM RYERSON
Saturday September 18 5:30:00 PM SCOTIABANK THEATRE 11
Sunday September 19 9:30:00 AM SCOTIABANK THEATRE 11
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