A psychological thriller about a grieving mother turned cold-blooded avenger with a twisted master plan to pay back those who were responsible for her daughter’s death.
Tetsuya Nakashima (中島哲也) (born 1959) is a Japanese film director. He was born in Fukuoka, attending high school in Chikushino. Nakashima was given the Best Director award at the 2005 Yokohama Film Festival for his film Kamikaze Girls.
His 2010 film Confessions was selected as the Japanese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards and made the final shortlist in January 2011. –Wikipedia
Wow! WOW. I thought this was such a good film! It really captures the modern era and the pure bleakness that comes even in youth. I wanted its details into the background stories of the boys to offer hope or some explanation (is it genetic? environmental? societal?) but-NANTO, NE-I was left with nothing but desolation :( DD: *sigh* shigata ga nai . . .
The first half hour would make a great stand alone short film. The longer it goes it begins to wane, but it's still a very well made and entertaining pop film.
I really wanted to love this but the slo-mo shots in every other scene coupled with the decidedly 'Western Pop' soundtrack proved to be over the top in a VERY BAD way.
I agree. Whenever Radiohead show up in a film, it seems to kill it (even in the far superior "Incendies").
I had the chance to see Tetsuya Nakashima’s Confessions, Japan’s entry to the 2011 Academy Awards. The film opens to show a class of troublemaking students drinking milk before their homeroom teacher… read review
English Title: Confessions
Original Title: Kokuhaku
Year: 2010
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Director: Tetsuya Nakashima
Writers:
Tetsuya… read review
Cast: Takako Matsu, Masaki Okada, Yoshino Kimura, Yukido Nishii, Kaoru Fujiwaru, Ai Hashimoto, Mana Ashida
Director: Tetsuya Nakashima
Confessions does just that and tells the story through… read review
