Ansatsu kyôshitsu (2015)

The Earth's moon is suddenly 70% smaller and permanently crescent shaped by a devastating and unknown force. For the students of E Class, Kunugigaoka Junior High School, the being ... See full summary »

Director:

Eiichirô Hasumi

Writers:

Yûsei Matsui (manga), Tatsuya Kanazawa (screenplay)

Stars:

Ryôsuke Yamada, Masaki Suda, Maika Yamamoto

3 wins.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Ryôsuke Yamada	...	Nagisa Shiota
Masaki Suda	...	Karma Akabane
Maika Yamamoto	...	Kaede Kayano
Seika Taketomi	...	Rio Nakamura
Mio Yûki	...	Yukiko Kanzaki
Miku Uehara	...	Manami Okuda
Yuuhi Kato	...	Yuuma Isogai
Kouki Osamura	...	Taiga Okajima
Saki Takahashi	...	Hinata Okano
Kanon Miyahara	...	Megu Kataoka
Shôta Arai	...	Masayoshi Kimura
Rena Shimura	...	Hinano Kurahashi
Mitsugu Ozawa	...	Sosuke Sugaya
Riku Ichikawa	...	Tomohito Sugino
Takuya Yoshihara	...	Kotaro Takebayashi

Storyline

The Earth's moon is suddenly 70% smaller and permanently crescent shaped by a devastating and unknown force. For the students of E Class, Kunugigaoka Junior High School, the being responsible is known, as their teacher. The strange and very supportive entity has given the Japanese government a challenge to save the Earth from destruction. It wants to be the teacher of the class with the lowest expectations for success, in anything. The students, armed with special weapons that only harm their teacher, must find a way to kill him before the end of the school year. If not, summer break will be canceled by the end of the world.

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Plot Keywords:

based on manga | alien | moon | teacher | attempted murder | 

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi

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Certificate:

M

Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Release Date:

21 March 2015 (Japan)

Also Known As:

Assassination Classroom

Company Credits

Production Co:

Fuji Television Network,J Storm,Robot Communications

Technical Specs

Runtime:

110 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

A sequel to this film titled 'Assassination Classroom: Graduation' will be released in 2016.

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Connections

Remake of Ansatsu kyôshitsu (2015)

User Reviews

An Out-of-This-World Concept That Settles for All-Too-Familiar Spoils

A sufficiently absurd live-action adaptation of a long-running manga / anime series, in which a giant, yellow, tentacled, smiley-visaged alien spends a term as visiting professor at a Japanese middle school. Having already annihilated a majority of the moon, he's promised to do the same to Earth if he survives the class, though a core subject is his various weaknesses and how to exploit them. So basically, pop culture in Japan at its usual level of overly-specific weirdness. It's actually a great recipe for fresh stories - downtrodden kids from a discarded class learning the ins and outs of the assassination game at a very young age - but often gets tripped up by its own rules and a desire to be more than just a silly dash of action nonsense. The CG can be interesting, too, but there's so much exposition that, as a non-native speaker, I was always too focused on the subtitles to properly appreciate it. Several desperate attempts to make an emotional connection near the end seem misguided and ineffective, merely distracting from the main attraction. Too much fake heart and not enough real heat.