Bad Company

2001
6.6| 1h38m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 01 February 2001 Released
Producted By: Bandai Visual
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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.

Genre

Drama

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Director

Tomoyuki Furumaya

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Bandai Visual

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Bad Company Audience Reviews

Console best movie i've ever seen.
Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.
Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.
Justina The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
elclown 3 out of 10I can't understand why this movie has such comments and ratings. I saw Mabudachi expecting it to be something else than just a boring drama, and got very disappointed.This movie is classed as a Japanese drama about three school kids in the late 80's (even though late 90's cars go by the camera). The plot is just a giant McGuffin to criticize the fascism in the school education, and the traditional Japanese family values. However, the film isn't strong enough to cover this McGuffin, making it too obvious to be interesting and deep. It's not such a big problem of plot, but of direction. There are amazing shoots and really nice symbolic scenes through the movie, but ain't correlative with the overall film. The good scenes just seem to be attached ones with the others with 30' transitions of crappy footage, and the beautiful take s are re-shot once and again from every angle possible, making some localizations really tedious (didn't forgot to film 1" of the bridge); the contrast between dramatic scenes and slow-peaced scenes, can be used to relax the audience in order to emphasize the drama (Hana-bi, for example, uses this contrast and succeeds), but it doesn't work here.In conclusion, the movie has a good set out, but fails when trying to develop the anecdote. As it has some nice points and a few interesting dramatic scenes it may worth a rental if you are common with Japanese cinema. However, if you are looking for somekind of good critic to the Japanese society, all Kitano movies, even Fukasaku's Battle Royale, will do far better than Bad Company.
Matt73 I'm lucky to be able to catch this movie during Singapore International Film Festival. This is one of the best movies throughout the festival.It's about 3 high school buddies: A bully, a nice boy, and a stupid and chubby one. The story moves quite slowly, but quite impressive.It follows their activities everyday. Stealing, skipping school, etc. The friendship keeps going strong despite of the problems and quarrels.The movie takes an unexpected turns towards the ending. That's when their friendship is put into test.A very nice tale of friendship. I wish they'll release it on DVD soon.
gondwana 'Bad Company' lets us be witnesses of a few days out of a few boys lifes in Japan in the 80's. Every day they have to write down their thaughts and feelings in their diary. This helps us understand the way they experience life and what emotions guide them. The hard japanese mentality, almost designed to make obeident and submissive employees out of them, doesn't have consideration for their youth and envy to play and fool around. Instead of being motivated, they are driven into pilferage and lies. The pshycological training is too hard. They learnt how to write down what their 'superior'(the teacher) would like to read, but they never were given the chance to understand, enjoy nor express their feelings.Growing up and learning is more than doing what adults would like you to become.