Lesson of the Evil

Japan. Autumn. A single, buzzing cicada. Mr. Hasumi, everyone's favorite teacher, smiles, always smiling, as he calmly poisons and massacres his high school students. Miike's exercise in blood-spray nihilism plays like an amped-up J-horror riff on *The Bad Seed*.

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Takashi Miike directed Lesson of the Evil in 2012. See Takashi Miike's full filmography, where to start with Takashi Miike, or where to go after you've seen everything by Takashi Miike.

Lesson of the Evil was released in 2012 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 129 minutes.