Kokuhaku (Confession) 2010 Review

I watched Kokuhaku a few months ago and just thought I'd give a short review about it. It's an amazing film. It's not a happy film but it's a dark, twisted, and clever film in many ways. Although slowly moving in the beginning, it later progressed with each confessions being done beautifully. The movie started out with Yuko Moriguchi(Takako Matsu) resigning from teaching her junior high school students due to the death of her daughter and confessing that she knew that two students in her class killed her daughter(student A & student B). She also said she planned to get back on them(watch it to see what happen..it's so good).

So a few months pass the next semester came, a new homeroom teacher was assigned and the class was back to normal. Not quite. The treatment on student A and student B was different. Bullying occured. Student B was so traumatized by what Ms. Moriguchi did, he wouldn't even come to school. Pretty much a third of the film showed the deterioration of the class and how the lives of student A and student B change after the incident. These are shown as confessions even the student B mother has a confession. Overall, it was an amazing film. The scenery and music can bring about various emotions in this film. The cinematography was beautiful. Great acting. Good twisted ending too. It also showed how students can turn on each other so easily and become very scary at times. I recommend it if you want to watch something different.

Below is the trailer w/ Eng sub:

Movies review: School Days with the Pig

Here's a review of a movie I watched recently >o< Schooldays with A Pig Basics: The story is about a six grade teacher who brought a baby pig for his whole class to raise for a year. At the end of the year, they will eat it. But will they eat little P-chan? That is the main question centering in this movie. Will the kid's attachments to the pig make them change their mind or will the piggy be sent to the slaughter center? Reaction: I've read pretty good reviews about this film and I had to agree. It was an enjoyable film to the very end. The teachers and students interaction in this movie was realistic. I absolutely love the debates the students had on what to do with P-chan. Also the baby pig was so adorable and I was able to see it grew as time pass. The movie really hit the topic of what's the value of a life that was not human. It was a very tough decision for them...I was crying with them toward the final debates too because it was so emotional. To me there was no right or wrong in their decision. >o<

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