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‘Confession’ Review: A Live-Action Manga Adaptation Crams Maximum Menace Into One Cabin
In 'Confession,' two men stuck in a snowbound cabin might not both survive the night in Nobuhiro Yamashita’s taut, atmospheric Japanese thriller.
She’d formed an inseparable trio with now ex-boyfriend Asai (Toma Ikuta) and Korean exchange student Jiyong (Yang Ik-june); since then, the two men have annually climbed the same mountain in her memory. Having no idea how far they remain from reaching shelter, he decides he’d rather give up, saying “I deserve to die.” He admits to his old friend that he himself had strangled Jiyong to death, out of frustrated desire and jealousy, leaving her body in the wilderness. Shinya Kimura’s elegantly moody widescreen compositions, and an unexpectedly big symphonic score by Masa Takumi that surges between long stretches of queasy quiet.
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