Misumisô (2018)

Misumisô: Directed by Eisuke Naitô. With Anna Yamada, Hiroya Shimizu, Rinka Ôtani, Rena Ôtsuka. As if bullied by her classmates everyday is not enough, Nozaki finds her house burnt to the ground and her parents dead. Knowing that the fire is not an accident, she sneaks off to punish those responsible one by one.

“u0026quot;Liverleafu0026quot; (2018) directed by Eisuke Naitô based this story on a teen dystopian view on u0026quot;bullyingu0026quot; and angst. The film is a cinematic interpretation of the manga comic, u0026quot;Misumisôu0026quot; by Rensuke Oshikiri. The main target of the bullying is focused on u0026quot;Haruka Nozakiu0026quot; (helmed by Anna Yamada) and her family in a nondescript small town.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eNaitô stays true to the type of overtop violence found in Japanese graphic novels. Most of violence was filmed in a stylish manner, even to the clothing and injuries endured onto the teen characters.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eu0026quot;Liverleafu0026quot; or u0026quot;Misumisôu0026quot; refers to a beautiful purple flower that blooms in the winter landscapes, which why many outdoor scenes were in amidst the social snowy landscape. Nozakiu0026#39;s revenge on her bullies starts to toil when a snowstorm appears.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eTeen actors were good at delivering psychotic behavior, like the character, u0026quot;Rumiu0026quot; played by Rena Ôtsuka. Aside from the celluloid teen assaults, it is a teen love story, or stories. As the film proceeds to a dwindling number of teen survivors, there are plot discovery of a triangle appears.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI had viewed it at an international film festival where most of the viewers were starting to laugh when the violent scenes came up. I feel that their laughing was to deal with the on-screen gore; I would think that Naitô would please to see these reactions.”