Confessions (告白, Kokuhaku?) is a 2010 Japanese drama film directed by Tetsuya Nakashima, based on housewife-turned-author Kanae Minato's 2008 debut mystery novel that won the 2009 Honya Taisho award. Junior high school teacher Yuko Moriguchi (Takako Matsu) announces to her class that she will resign. She then goes on to explain that two pupils in her class, whom she dubs "Student A" and "Student B", had murdered her three-year-old daughter. Revealing their identities and reporting them wouldn't make a difference, she explains, because they, as minors, are protected by the Juvenile Law of 1947. The current law means they will escape punishment she believes they deserve. She, however, admits to injecting her late husband's HIV-contaminated blood in the milk cartons the class has just drank. The class reacts in panic, but calms down when they realize who "Student A" and "Student B" are. They did not report Moriguchi's confession. The rest of the film switches between the aftermath of ...