Lesson of the Evil

Aku no Kyōten
Directed byTakashi Miike
Written byTakashi Miike
Based onAku no Kyōten
by Yusuke Kishi
Produced byKôji Azuma
Tōru Mori
Misako Saka
StarringHideaki Itō
Takayuki Yamada
Mitsuru Fukikoshi
CinematographyNobuyasu Kita
Edited byKenji Yamashita
Music byKoji Endo
Production
company
Release dates
  • November 9, 2012 (2012-11-09) (Rome Film Festival)
  • November 10, 2012 (2012-11-10) (Japan)
Running time
128 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Box office$25.9 million[1]

Aku no Kyōten (悪の教典, literally "Lesson of Evil"), known in English as Lesson of the Evil, is a 2012 Japanese thriller film directed by Takashi Miike starring Hideaki Itō.[2] It is an adaptation of Yusuke Kishi's 2010 novel of the same name. A seinen manga under the same name, illustrated by Eiji Karasuyama, was also released in 2012 by Kodansha in Good! Afternoon magazine.[3] The story contains many references to German culture, such as mention of Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther and a vinyl record playing "Mack the Knife" by Bertolt Brecht.

  1. ^ "Aku no kyôten (Lesson of the Evil) Box Office Mojo listing". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved April 11, 2019.
  2. ^ "Ito Hideaki to star as psychopathic teacher in "Aku no Kyoten" movie". Tokyograph. 5 March 2012. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
  3. ^ Karasuyama, Eiji (2012–2015). 悪の教典 (Aku no Kyōten), 9 volumes. Kodansha. ISBN 978-4-06-387844-8.