Bad Company (2001)
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.
Director:
Tomoyuki Furumaya
Writer:
Tomoyuki Furumaya
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Yamato Okitsu as Kôzu, Sadatomo |
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Ryosuke Takahashi as Nimura, Tetsuya |
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Yuta Nakajima as Nomura, Shuji |
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Ken Mitsuishi as Kôzu, Yoshiyuki (Sadatomo's Father) |
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Mikio Shimizu as Professor Kobayashi |
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Asako Yashiro as Yoriko |
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Hiroko Akune as Yuriko |
| Directing | Tomoyuki Furumaya | Director |
| Production | Takenori Sentô | Producer |
| Art | Fumiaki Suzaka | Production Design |
| Editing | Shuichi Kakesu | Editor |
| Lighting | Shinichi Matsukuma | Lighting Technician |
| Directing | Akihiro Onodera | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Masami Inomoto | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Masamichi Shigeno | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Tomoyuki Furumaya | Screenplay |
| Production | Makoto Kariya | Line Producer |
