This has been a film that has had great reviews and I thought I would check it out. I liked most of it. The acting was solid. The atmosphere was somber. The story was decent. My only problem with this was that it was moving so slow. I understand that pace was set that way to help with the character builds but it just seem that some of it was dragging by. It was a good revenge film it just needed to pick up the pace.

A teacher's daughter is murdered and she already knows the culprits .. A movie about the aftermath and consequences of an unjust murder as the teacher (mother) decides to take the law into her own hands - fore it is her job "to make sure these students learn their lesson.""Confessionals" show insight into the teller's mind , their view on the story (murdered child) .. Mom's, star pupil, the killers, and the killer's mom hold down the confession booth . They all have their own story to tell .10/10 Revenge Movie

It is likely that there are hundreds of mediocre Japanese films and that in theist we only get to see the more interesting or better made. Fact is, however, that all of those released in the UK excepting a few generic horrors, seem of a very high order and fiercely aware of potentially perilous contradictions in the behaviour of the people. This is far from the joy and fun of the director's earlier Kamikaze Girls, even if that too threw up plenty of awkward questions for a confused populous, indeed this appears almost to be a Sadean reverse. Nobody comes out of this well and the film that begins on the dark side just gets darker and bloodier as it progresses. There is an 's' at the end of the single world title and this means that the lengthy and seemingly authoritative, initial confession is but the first. Slightly confusing, here and there, wit similar looking girls and first names, nicknames and last names waved about but well worth your attention for a disturbing but enlightening look at the lot of schoolchildren and their parents in jolly Japan. Incidentally I think it must also be significant that there appears to be no Japanese translation for 'single parent' which is expressed in English here, suggesting discriminatory problems ahead.

I do not want to prevent anyone from watching this film, but I have to express how much I regret having wasted my time with it. It builds up to a horror climax working on the worst and the darkest of humans. No character is rescued, nor any acting is worth watching what is a long, quite tedious, totally predictable movie. There are several scenes that you will simply wish you may forget because of the all the hatred, the evil, the senseless cruelty, absolutely wanting a bit of intelligence or some sense of proportion.It makes you hate boys, girls, adults, life, yourself, and gives you nothing in return. It ends so poorly, no surprise there...