When I Kill Myself (2011)
Due to the high suicide rate among youths in Japan, the government implements experiments to uncover the causes behind the high suicide rate. Children are selected and placed in a YSC facility under constant surveillance. At the age of 10, the children are then give a detonator with a red switch. They are told if they press the switch they will die immediately. Most of the children under the experiment, eventually presses the switch and dies. After the completion of the experiment 6 kids remain who did not press the switch. The 6 kids are; strong-minded Masami, weak Naoto, hot-tempered Hiro, impulsive Ryota, wheelchair bound Kimiaki and Aiko who is always thinking of her parents. These 6 kids survived even though they were pressured by project manager Tsukuda to press the switch.
Director:
Ryô Nakajima
Writer:
Takaya Okamoto
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Keisuke Koide as Warden Yohei Minami |
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Erena Mizusawa as Masami Takamiya |
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Kazuma Sano as Naoto Kosaka |
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Shinjiro Atae as Hiro Ikeda |
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Rio Kanno as Aiko Tahara |
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Seiji Fukushi as Warden Sakamoto |
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Sawa Suzuki as Yoko Kogure |
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Tetsushi Tanaka as Koji Maruyama |
| Writing | Yusuke Yamada | Novel |
| Directing | Ryô Nakajima | Director |
| Writing | Takaya Okamoto | Writer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Rie Suda | Makeup & Hair |
| Sound | Shun Tanaka | Sound |
| Directing | Akihiro Onodera | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Hiromichi Kori | Sound Recordist |
| Art | Masashi Nomiya | Decorator |
| Lighting | Shinichi Matsukuma | Gaffer |
| Sound | Kayo Konishi | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Yukio Kondo | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Ryô Nakajima | Editor |
| Editing | Taku Nagase | Editor |
| Art | Bunyo Kimura | Production Design |
| Camera | Masami Inomoto | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Takaya Okamoto | Screenplay |
| Writing | Yusuke Yamada | Original Story |
| Production | Ken Nakanishi | Producer |
| Production | Motoko Kimura | Development Producer |