Everyone in class, slaughtered.

Lesson of the Evil

Name: Lesson of the Evil
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Released: 2012-11-10
Duration: 129 min
Cast: Hideaki Ito, Fumi Nikaido, Shota Sometani, Kento Hayashi, Kodai Asaka

Japanese Cinema20122h 9mJapaneseTop 33% of Japanese Cinema grosses

48Standing

119th of 224 in Japanese Cinema

Reported gross: 66
Audience rating: 17
Momentum: 47

Out-grossed 66% of Japanese Cinema releases with reported figures ($26M).
Momentum in the 47th percentile.
Audience rating 6.7 from 241 votes, the 17th percentile.

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Cost: Not on record
Took: $26M

What did you make of it?

The picture

Seiji Hasumi is a popular English teacher in a private high school. He is also a violent and sociopathic killer who concocts an extreme plan to deal with the rise of bullying and bad behavior among the student body.

Released: 10 November 2012
Runtime: 2h 9m
Language: Japanese
Industry: Japanese Cinema

Top billedAll 22 credits

Hideaki ItoSeiji Hasumi
Fumi NikaidoReika Katagiri
Shota SometaniKeisuke Hayami
Kento HayashiMasahiko Maejima
Kodai AsakaYuichiro Nagoshi
Erina MizunoMiya Yasuhara

Made by

Director: Takashi Miike
Screenplay: Takashi Miike
Original Music Composer: Koji Endo
Director of Photography: Nobuyasu Kita
Producer: Koji Azuma, Toru Mori, Misako Saka

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