Mabudachi
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Cast & Crew
Tomoyuki Furumaya
Yamato Okitsu
Ryosuke Takahashi
Yuta Nakajima
Ken Mitsuishi
Asako Yashiro
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Synopsis
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
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Miscellaneous Notes
Winner of the Tiger Award for New Directors and the Fipresci International Critics Prize at the 2001 Rotterdam International Film Festival.
Released in United States 2001
Released in United States November 2001
Shown at London Film Festival (World Cinema) November 7-22, 2001.
Shown at Rotterdam International Film Festival (VPRO Tiger Awards Competition) January 24 - February 4, 2001.
Released in United States 2001
Released in United States 2001 (Shown at Rotterdam International Film Festival (VPRO Tiger Awards Competition) January 24 - February 4, 2001.)
Released in United States November 2001 (Shown at London Film Festival (World Cinema) November 7-22, 2001.)
