When I Kill Myself

When I Kill Myself

2011 · 110 min · ★ 4.7 · Thriller

Due to the high suicide rate among youths in Japan, the government implements experiments to uncover the causes behind the high suicide rate. Children are selected and placed in a YSC facility under constant surveillance. At the age of 10, the children are then give a detonator with a red switch. They are told if they press the switch they will die immediately. Most of the children under the experiment, eventually presses the switch and dies. After the completion of the experiment 6 kids remain who did not press the switch. The 6 kids are; strong-minded Masami, weak Naoto, hot-tempered Hiro, impulsive Ryota, wheelchair bound Kimiaki and Aiko who is always thinking of her parents. These 6 kids survived even though they were pressured by project manager Tsukuda to press the switch.

Directed by Ryô Nakajima · Written by Takaya Okamoto

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Keisuke Koide Warden Yohei Minami
Erena Mizusawa Masami Takamiya
Kazuma Sano Naoto Kosaka
Shinjiro Atae Hiro Ikeda
Rio Kanno Aiko Tahara
Seiji Fukushi Warden Sakamoto
Sawa Suzuki Yoko Kogure
Tetsushi Tanaka Koji Maruyama

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