Lesson in Murder

A quiet bakery in second-grade drizzle. Nine slow burns reduced to ash. A college boy inherits a serial killer’s confessional envelope—eight names match, but the ninth stays hot. Kazuya Shiraishi folds the genre like a scorched letter, edges crusted with quiet dread.

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Kazuya Shiraishi directed Lesson in Murder in 2022. See Kazuya Shiraishi's full filmography, where to start with Kazuya Shiraishi, or where to go after you've seen everything by Kazuya Shiraishi.

Lesson in Murder was released in 2022 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 128 minutes.