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Monster ()

Kaibutsu (original title)
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A mother demands answers from her son's teacher when her son begins acting strangely.
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Saori
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Hori
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Minato
Hinata Hiiragi ...
Yori
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Hirona
Akihiro Kakuta ...
Shoda
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Kiyotaka
Yûko Tanaka ...
Fushimi

Directed by

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Kore-eda Hirokazu ... (as Hirokazu Koreeda)

Written by

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Yûji Sakamoto ... (screenplay)

Produced by

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Megumi Banse ... producer
Minami Ichikawa ... producer
Taichi Itô ... producer
Genki Kawamura ... lead producer
Ryo Ota ... producer
Hijiri Taguchi ... producer
Kiyoshi Taguchi ... producer
Hajime Ushioda ... producer
Hisashi Usui ... executive producer
Eiji Watanabe ... line producer
Kenji Yamada ... producer
Tatsumi Yoda ... producer

Music by

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Ryuichi Sakamoto

Cinematography by

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Ryûto Kondô ... (photography)

Editing by

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Kore-eda Hirokazu ... (as Hirokazu Koreeda)

Editorial Department

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Yûki Izumi ... digital intermediate cordinator
Soichi Satake ... digital intermediate colorist

Casting By

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Rie Tabata

Production Design by

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Keiko Mitsumatsu

Costume Design by

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Kazuko Kurosawa ... (costume design)

Makeup Department

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Mutsuki Sakai ... makeup and hair

Production Management

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Ichiro Goto ... production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Shôichi Morimoto ... assistant director

Art Department

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Keiko Mitsumatsu ... art designer
Atsushi Sahara ... decoration
Hyeon-Seon Seo ... set designer

Sound Department

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Akihiko Okase ... sound effects
Kazuhiko Tomita ... recording

Visual Effects by

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Vipra Ajmera ... digital coordinator: Juice
Firdous Alam ... cleanup artist: Juice (as Firdaus Alam)
Zimowska Anna ... accounting: Juice (as Anna Zimowska)
Javed Ansari ... cleanup artist: Juice
Lisa Cao ... rendering support: Juice
Ravi Chauhan ... tracking artist: Juice
Jaroslaw Cwirzen ... it manager: Juice
Seweryn Czarnecki ... compositing artist: Juice
Michal Dwojak ... executive vfx producer: Juice (as Michal Dwojak-Hara)
Tomasz Dyrdula ... visual effects supervisor: Juice
Emilia Dziekan ... team coordinator: Juice
Damian Fabich ... visual effects production manager: Juice
Nicolas Leon Flores ... lighting artist: Juice
Rafal Gosieniecki ... concept artist: Juice
Ryota Hamaguchi ... fx artist: Juice
Tomasz Herbst ... head of data processing: Juice
Grzegorz Kapelczak ... data wrangler: Juice
Stefania Kolarz ... legal: Juice
Kamil Krynski ... fx artist: Juice
Mieszko Lacinski ... lead asset artist: Juice
Valy Lungoccia ... visual effects supervisor: Juice
Jil Patel ... tracking artist: Juice
Gaurav Pawar ... tracking artist: Juice (as Gourav Pawar)
Ewa Plecka ... asset artist: Juice
Lukasz Podwysocki ... asset artist: Juice
Andrzej Przydatek ... compositing artist: Juice
Tomasz Przydatek ... compositing artist: Juice
Ankit Sanchaniya ... cleanup artist: Juice (as Ankit Sanchinaya)
Bartosz Schmar ... it manager: Juice
Gordon Shaw ... rendering support: Juice
Tatsuya Shimada ... on-set vfx producer: Juice
Szymski Tomasz ... pipeline developer: Juice (as Tomasz Szymski)
Takuma Tsuboi ... fx artist: Juice
Adam Tunikowski ... executive vfx producer: Juice
Faiz Wali ... tracking artist: Juice
Varun Walia ... digital coordinator: Juice
Mayu Yamashita ... visual effects producer: Juice
Tomotaka Yokoo ... lighting artist: Juice
Evan Zhang ... rendering support: Juice
Kenny Zou ... rendering support: Juice
Katarzyna Zumirska ... accounting: Juice

Camera and Electrical Department

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Eiji Oshita ... lighting

Script and Continuity Department

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Tomoko Oshida ... script

Additional Crew

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Chiho Asada ... Intimacy coordinator
Mario Locurcio ... publicity: Italy

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Storyline

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Plot Summary

When her young son Minato starts to behave strangely, his mother feels that there is something wrong. Discovering that a teacher is responsible, she storms into the school demanding to know what's going on. But as the story unfolds through the eyes of mother, teacher and child, the truth gradually emerges. Written by yusufpiskin

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Additional Details

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Also Known As
  • 怪物 (Japan, Japanese title)
  • Monster (Europe, English title)
  • Monster (Asia, English title)
  • Monster (United States)
  • Monster (World-wide, English title)
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Runtime
  • 127 min
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Did You Know?

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Trivia Koreeda said that all the characters in the film, to some degree, are imprisoned by invisible walls. "The mother is restricted by social norms, and the teacher is restricted by his manhood, as well as the school system. And the children are living in this world that the adults have created and they are affected by it, in terms of the violence that is perpetrated upon them. Yet they are able to escape it. It's as if the adults have been left behind, and the children have gone ahead and come to their own self-realization. I wanted it to be a positive realization." See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Never Trust the Standing Ovations | CANNES 2023 Indiana Jones, Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). See more »
Quotes Fushimi: If only some people can have it, that's not happiness. That's just nonsense. Happiness is something anyone can have.
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