Bad Company (movie)
まぶだち- User score: 4.7
- Production country: Japan
- Producer: Tomoyuki Furumaya
- Production companies: J-Movie Wars, Bandai Visual, Suncent CinemaWorks, WOWOW
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 2/1/2001
- Run time: 98 min.
Movie description
It is 1980. Sadatomo is at a secondary school in a small town. His parents barely take any notice of him. The strict teacher Kobayashi has hung up a 'humanity index' in the classroom, divided into the categories 'delinquents', 'scum' and 'people'. In each category he has hung name-cards of pupils. One day Kobayashi finds out that Sadatomo and his friends have stolen some things from a shop for fun. Their fathers are informed and as punishment, the children have to write a 'self-critical' essay of no less than thirty pages. For the first time, Sadatomo is beaten by his father. Shocked, he writes a piece entitled 'I am an onion', in which the teacher thinks he can detect a first sign of humanity. That is the start of a confusing situation in which it gets hard to distinguish lies, truth, justified self-criticism and opportunist wheeler dealing, even for the boys.
