I Want to Be Killed by a High School Girl Blu-ray

“I came to this school to be killed.” Meticulous psychological detail, unpredictable suspense and a provocative visual world combine in an ultimate immoral thriller that overturns everything you take for granted. High-school teacher Haruto Higashiyama has spent nine years devising an unprecedented plan for his own murder.

Haruto seems like an ordinary, sensible man, yet he cannot suppress the impulses within him: a disturbing figure whose madness combines an unsettling presence with allure.

The original manga is by Usamaru Furuya, the distinctive talent behind Lychee Light Club and Teiichi no Kuni. Published to mark the twentieth anniversary of his career as a manga artist, it attracted attention for its shocking content. The bold cinematic adaptation combines ominously beautiful imagery with accomplished storytelling to create a startling, singular film.

Haruto became a high-school teacher because he wants to be killed by a high-school girl. While living his everyday life as a popular teacher, he has spent nine years secretly and painstakingly working out the one perfect plan to achieve his ideal death. His two conditions are that it must be the perfect crime and that he must be killed with the killer’s full strength. Targeting the one girl who can fulfil those conditions, he approaches four very different pupils—Maho, Aoi, Kyoko and Aika—following the scenario he has carefully devised…

Video extras include making-of footage, stage greetings from the completed-film premiere screening, and two teaser trailers. An outer sleeve case and postcard are included.