Akiko who's being abused by her boyfriend, Takagi. One day, tells him that she wants to take an acting workshop to become an actress, but he calls her ugly and crazy to think of this, and continues his abuse. After the abuse has passed, she receives an email on her cell phone with the subject line "Workshop Information". Akiko takes the money she has been saving for the workshop to become an actress, and heads to the place designated in the e-mail. There, the instructor, Eno, gathers other participants besides Akiko, and they are to take part in a "hands-on" workshop where they will train for three days and two nights to make sure they kill the person they want to kill. (Source: IMDb) Edit Translation
- English
- Español
- Português (Brasil)
- 한국어
- Native Title: 殺人ワークショップ
- Also Known As: Satsujin Wakushoppu
- Screenwriter & Director: Shiraishi Koji
- Genres: Thriller, Mystery
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Cold Fish but worse.
Basically Sion Sono's Cold Fish but worse. I think when they aren't found footage Shiraishi's movies feel noticably more amatuerish on a low budget. I don't get how this is a dark comedy, it just felt deathly serious to me the entire time.The acting from everyone kinda sucked as well, Shohei Uno being the highlight as usual, as although delivering a somewhat dull performance by his standards, he still manages to be extremely intimidating and him sitting still in a chair made me more on edge than I've been watching any supernatural horror movie.
Although not horrible, Cold Fish accomplishes similar themes to this in a much more impactful, thought provoking, and confronting way and has some of my favourite performances and movie characters ever in Denden's Yukio Murata (equivalent to Uno's character) and Mitsuru Fukikoshi's Nobuyuki Shamoto (equivalent to basically everyone else in this movie).
It was nice to watch another movie from Shiraishi-san after a while even if this was a bit of a letdown, there is not much enjoyment to be had here and I'd probably rank it the worst of the full length movies I've seen from him so far.
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