--- title: 'Lesson of the Evil (2012)' type: 'film' director: 'Takashi Miike' released: '2012-11-09' runtime_minutes: 124 genres: - 'Horror' countries: - 'Japan' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/lesson-of-the-evil-2012' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2294473/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Lesson of the Evil (2012) 2012 · 124 min · Horror · Japan ## Synopsis Aku no Kyōten , also known in English as Lesson of the Evil or Lesson of Evil, is a 2012 Japanese thriller film directed by Takashi Miike starring Hideaki Itō. 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. 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. ## Credits - **Director:** [Takashi Miike](https://cinepixo.com/people/takashi-miike) - **Screenplay:** [Takashi Miike](https://cinepixo.com/people/takashi-miike), [Yusuke Kishi](https://cinepixo.com/people/yusuke-kishi) - **Original Music Composer:** [Kōji Endō](https://cinepixo.com/people/koji-endo) - **Director of Photography:** [Kita Nobuyasu](https://cinepixo.com/people/kita-nobuyasu) - **Editor:** [Kenji Yamashita](https://cinepixo.com/people/kenji-yamashita) ## Cast - [Takayuki Yamada](https://cinepixo.com/people/takayuki-yamada) - [Mitsuru Fukikoshi](https://cinepixo.com/people/mitsuru-fukikoshi) - [Kento Hayashi](https://cinepixo.com/people/kento-hayashi) - [Takehiro Hira](https://cinepixo.com/people/takehiro-hira) - [Hideaki Itō](https://cinepixo.com/people/hideaki-ito) - [Shun Miyazato](https://cinepixo.com/people/shun-miyazato) - [Shōta Sometani](https://cinepixo.com/people/shota-sometani) - [Fumi Nikaidō](https://cinepixo.com/people/fumi-nikaido) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/lesson-of-the-evil-2012 Film facts: Wikidata (Q391943); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.