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MASTER SCORE 65.1 / 100
2022·Crime / Mystery / Drama·2h 8m

LESSON IN MURDER

Masaya is a university student, but he attends a school that's not his ideal school. His days are generally gloomy. One day, he receives a letter from serial killer Haimura. He was convicted for nine murders and received the death penalty. Back when Haimura was committing his murders, he ran a bakery store. At that time, Masaya was a middle-school student and a customer at his bakery store. According to the letter, Haimura confesses to having committed eight murders, but he insists that he did not commit the last murder. Masaya begins to investigate the last murder case involving Haimura.

Above the Line
Kazuya Shiraishi·DirectorRyo Takada·ScreenplayRiu Kushiki·NovelNaoya Ikeda·Director of PhotographyTakashi Ohmama·Original Music ComposerHitomi Kato·Editor
Cast
Sadao Abe·Yamato HaimuraKoshi Mizukami·Masaya KakeiTakanori Iwata·Kazuki KanayamaMiho Nakayama·Ms. KakeiShimako Iwai·Woman in Red JacketYu Miyazaki·Akari KanoHiroto Oshita·KurataTakuma Otoo·TakiuchiRyo Sato·Kaoru NezuTakuji Suzuki·Kazuo Kakei
Full Crew
(21 credits)
Directing· 1
Kazuya Shiraishi·Director
Writing· 2
Ryo Takada·ScreenplayRiu Kushiki·Novel
Camera· 1
Naoya Ikeda·Director of Photography
Editing· 1
Hitomi Kato·Editor
Sound & Music· 3
Takashi Ohmama·Original Music ComposerKenji Shibasaki·Sound EffectsTomoharu Urata·Sound Recordist
Art & Design· 5
Tsutomu Imamura·Art DirectionTakayuki Nitta·Art DirectionRyôko Ariji·Makeup & HairSayaka Takahashi·CostumerAsuka Tada·Decorator
Production· 6
Takuro Nagai·ProducerKazumi Fukase·ProducerShintaro Hori·ProducerTakahiro Shinomiya·Production ManagerYoshie Wada·Production ExecutiveKazumi Fukase·Development Producer
Other Departments· 2
Hideki Tateno·GafferRei Asakura·VFX Supervisor
By the Numbers
65.1
OF 100
Master Score
6.3
OF 10
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Worldwide Gross
0
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