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Bad Company

Bad Company

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Drama

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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.

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Budget

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Revenue

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Status

Released

Original Language

Japanese

Runtime

98 mins

Rating

4.7/10

Release Date

01 February 2001

Country

Japan

Cast

Yamato Okitsu

Yamato Okitsu

Kôzu, Sadatomo

Ryosuke Takahashi

Ryosuke Takahashi

Nimura, Tetsuya

Yuta Nakajima

Yuta Nakajima

Nomura, Shuji

Ken Mitsuishi

Ken Mitsuishi

Kôzu, Yoshiyuki (Sadatomo's Father)

Mikio Shimizu

Mikio Shimizu

Professor Kobayashi

Asako Yashiro

Asako Yashiro

Yoriko

Hiroko Akune

Hiroko Akune

Yuriko

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