Who doesn’t love Japanese horror films? Yes, the hype may have died away but the legacy remains. Noted director Tetsuya Nakashima returns to cinema screens early in 2011 with a new psychological horror film entitled Confessions, based on a novel by Kanae Minato.

Confessions has been chosen as Japan’s entry into the 83rd Academy Awards ceremony in the Best Foreign Film category. Surely a sign of its brilliance? Are you prepared for a films of “dark emotions and powered by a savage central performance”? The film also boasts a cool soundtrack featuring Radiohead and currently indie darlings The XX.

Check out the very cool and unusual trailer below and tell me this doesn’t look the bees knees? Confessions will have its UK premiere screening at the Frightfest All-Nighter on 30th October 2010 at London’s Empire Cinema. For further information see the www.frightfest.co.uk or book tickets at www.empirecinemas.co.uk

Synopsis:

Takako Matsu (K-20: Legend Of The Mask) stars as Yuko Moriguchi, a middle-school teacher whose four-year-old daughter is found dead. Shattered, she finally returns to her classroom only to become convinced that two of her students were responsible for her daughter’s murder. No one believes her, and she may very well be wrong, but she decides, nevertheless, that it’s time to take her revenge. What happens next is all-out psychological warfare waged against her students in an attempt to force them into confessing what she knows in her heart to be true: they are guilty and must be punished.