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Sham
Directed by
Takashi Miike
2025
2h 9m
Crime
,
Drama
,
and more
7.0
82%
7.7
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When a young student shows signs of trauma, his parents act swiftly against his middle school teacher. But all may not be as it seems, leading the scales of justice to tip in fascinating, heartbreaking ways.
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Cast of Sham
Go Ayano
Ko Shibasaki
Kazuya Kamenashi
Yukiyoshi Ozawa
Masahiro Takashima
Fumino Kimura
Ken Mitsuishi
Kazuki Kitamura
Rie Minemura
Ayaka Higashino
Kaoru Kobayashi
Kisuke Iida
Tamae Ando
Rie Mimura
Koji Ohkura
Takaya Sakoda
Kira Miura
Takashi Miike
Director
Hayashi Mori
Screenplay
Kenichi Wasano
Producer
Sham Ratings & Reviews
In Review Online
Sean Gilman
The truly harrowing position of Sham is not that there's no such thing as truth, but rather that there is truth, and we, as a flawed people, have yet to develop a system in which we can find it.
Forbes
Scott Phillips
Sham is a masterful combination of insightful screenwriting, compelling performances and unintrusive direction.
Awards Radar
Maxance Vincent
Sham the best thing Miike has directed since First Love and one of the best films to have premiered at Fantasia this year. It lingers with you in a way that few of his films do, with no excessive violence required.
FandomWire
Sean Boelman
Sham does make a few missteps, but thanks to Miike's confident direction and Mori's nuanced treatment of its lead characters, this courtroom drama is generally effective as a morality tale.
Asian Movie Pulse
Panos Kotzathanasis
With his sharp direction, Miike turns this adaptation into a gripping and surprisingly poignant exploration of how truth can be manipulated, and how costly that manipulation can be for the individuals caught in its crosshairs
Variety
Siddhant Adlakha
The movie's engrossing visual and tonal language is all about seeding doubt, a promise on which Miike over-delivers, resulting in a tale that remains in morally gray territory long after it means to.
Next Best Picture
Will Bjarnar
"Sham" is precisely the kind of film a director more synonymous with pomp and circumstance might make preposterous and melodramatic, but in Miike's hands, it's the ideal mix of serious and silly.
The Film Stage
John Fink
Sham could be taken as either a straightforward drama that doesn't take advantage of its "based on a true story" premise to explore a broader range of themes or an expertly crafted work of minimalism from a master who is playing a few new notes.
Bloody Disgusting
Daniel Kurland
Sham is cruel, unflinching filmmaking that allows Takashi Miike to flex a rare set of muscles that brings out raw, angry work. It's exactly the right type of film that reminds Miike's audiences that there's a beating heart under all that blood and guts.
Cinema Daily US
Edward Douglas
Lacking many of Miike's flashier bells and whistles, Sham may be somewhat disappointing to the Japanese filmmaker's long-time fanbase, yet it could be seen as a step forward for Miike as a filmmaker.
Slant Magazine
Rocco T. Thompson
Sham is primarily concerned with individual experience at odds with dominant narratives, and whether knowing one's own reality can ever be solace enough if everyone else considers it fiction.
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