Bad Company

Bad Company (2001)

まぶだち

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.

Date of release
2001-02-01
TMDB
5.1 / 10 (7)
Runtime
1h 38m
Genres
Drama
Director
Tomoyuki Furumaya

Casting

Interesting facts

Mabudachi , known in English as Bad Company, is a 2001 Japanese semi-autobiographical drama film written and directed by Tomoyuki Furumaya. Set in the 1980s, it follows the lives of a class of secondary school students and their strict teacher, who creates a "humanity index" that divides his students into the categories of "delinquents", "scum" and "people". The film traces the fallout of this teaching method on the students' psychology, their delinquency as a form of rebellion, and the physical abuse they suffer at home. It stars Yamato Okitsu, Ryōsuke Takahashi, Yuta Nakajima, Ken Mitsuishi, Mikio Shimizu, Asako Yashiro and Hiroko Akune.

Production

Mabudachi was co-produced by Suncent CinemaWorks. The company was founded by Takenori Sento, who was one of the producers of the original Ringu. Sento created Suncent after the success of his wife Naomi Kawase's Suzaku.

Director Furumaya suffered a creative block after his debut project, This Window is Yours. Mabudachi was his return to filmmaking after a seven-year hiatus.

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